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After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
Published by Duckworth, 1981
ISBN 10: 0715616633ISBN 13: 9780715616635
Seller: St Philip's Books, P.B.F.A., B.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
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Book First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 2nd impr. ~Corners of cover creased. ~Robust packaging. Overseas tracking available on request. Size: ix,252pp. No ownership marks. Binding sound, text unmarked.
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 252pp Rare.
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After virtue: A study in moral theory
Published by University of Notre Dame Press, 1981
ISBN 10: 026800594XISBN 13: 9780268005948
Seller: Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
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Book First Edition
hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First American Edition. University of Notre Dame Press, 1981; no additional printings indicated; ix, 252pp. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; boards and text also very good; previous owner book plate on front paste-down, previous owner name at top edge of title page. Very light wear, toning to edges of unclipped dust jacket; small sticker ghost on front panel; light toning over spine; jacket arrives wrapped in protective mylar. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
Published by University of Notre Dame Press, 1981
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. A fine first edition of Alasdair MacIntyre's (b. 1929) masterpiece-a book regularly counted among the twentieth century's greatest works of ethical philosophy, and the book that ushered in a revival of Aristotelian thought and virtue ethics. First published by the University of Notre Dame Press in 1981, After Virtue has since been reissued in two subsequent editions; the second edition, published in 1984, added a postscript by MacIntyre responding to certain critics of the book, and the third edition, published in 2007, added a prologue ("After Virtue after a Quarter of a Century") in which he reflects on the development and prospects of the ideas put forward in the book and reiterates his commitment to its central theses. After Virtue sets forth MacIntyre's evaluation of the historical and conceptual roots of the idea of virtue, diagnoses the reasons for its absence in private and public life, and offers a proposal for its recovery. What MacIntyre discovers and exposes is the tendency for modern liberal societies, rooted as they are in Enlightenment individualism, to neglect and deny their narrative histories as they fragment into a heterogeneous collection of individual ends. MacIntyre looks to the Aristotelian tradition of virtue ethics as a tradition in which virtue remains encompassed within the narrative of a human life-a life lived out within a community that retains a shared vision of the "good." As MacIntyre concludes in his prologue to the 2007 edition, "it is only from the standpoint of a very different tradition, one whose beliefs and suppositions were articulated in their classical form by Aristotle, that we can understand both the genesis and the predicament of moral modernity." This is a fine first edition of one of the most influential works of philosophy to come out of the twentieth century. Octavo. Original cloth and dust jacket (not price-clipped). Minor edge wear to dust jacket, and typical color fade at spine of gray to light green (though less than usual), else fine. Fine in near-fine dust jacket.
