Hegel and MacIntyre: Reason in History brings the work of the foremost Anglophone moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre into dialogue with G. W. F. Hegel – two rationalist historicists whose affinities and tensions have often been noted, yet never before explored at book-length. The contributions in this collection, by leading Hegel and MacIntyre scholars and critical theorists, examine a wide range of questions about moral life under conditions of late-capitalist modernity.
Section 1 addresses (meta)ethical questions about the foundations of normativity, the scope of justice, the metaphysics of the self and how ethical concepts acquire determinacy. Section 2 addresses questions about the politics of small communities, democratic life forms and the tensions between modern institutions and virtue-enabling social practices. Section 3 traces MacIntyre’s engagement with Hegel (and Marx) historically, from his British New Left beginnings to his final writings.
Together, these articles show how philosophy can orient us in the conflicts of modernity. The book will be of interest not only to scholars of MacIntyre and Hegel but also to all who work with modern moral, social and political thought, especially Marxism, Neo-Aristotelianism and Thomism.
Michael Lazarus is Lecturer in Political Theory in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. He is the author of Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx (2025) and many articles and essays at the intersection of normative social theory and the critique of political economy.
Caleb Bernacchio is the Legendre-Soulé Chair in Business Ethics, Associate Professor of Management and Faculty Director of the Center for Ethics and Economic Justice at Loyola University New Orleans. His research focuses on the intersection of organization theory and neo-Aristotelian practical philosophy. He has published widely on aspects of Alasdair MacIntyre’s work and themes from Hegel’s practical philosophy. He is the author of Human Flourishing and the Firm (2026). His work has also been published in a range of journals, including Academy of Management Review, Acta Philosophica, Business Ethics: A European Review, Business Ethics Quarterly, International Philosophical Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, Philosophy of Management and Rethinking Marxism.
Ahmad Fattah is an independent scholar working at the intersection of ethics and the history of philosophy, with a specific interest in the meta-history of ethics. He was Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. He was previously a visiting Graduate Student Researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Western Ontario and an MBA from the University of Liverpool. He received his MA and PhD degrees in Philosophy from the University of Sheffield, advised by Robert Stern.
David Kretz is Postdoctoral Associate in the Humanities Program at Yale University. He received his PhD from the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago. Prior to that, he studied philosophy, intellectual history and literature in Paris, Berlin and his hometown Vienna.
