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Rationality and the ideology of disconnection

Title: Rationality and the ideology of disconnection / Michael Taylor.
Author: Taylor, Michael, 1942 September 22-
Publication: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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Description

xvii, 218 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"Rationality and the Ideology of Disconnection is a critique of the foundations of Rational Choice theory and the economic way of thinking about the world, written by a former leading practitioner. The target is a dehumanizing ideology that cannot properly recognize that normal people have attachments and commitments to other people and to practices, projects, principles, and places, which provide them with desire-independent reasons for action, and that they are reflective creatures who think about what they are and what they should be, with ideals that can shape and structure the way they see their choices."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Contemporary political theory

Uniform Title

Contemporary political theory.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Attachments: five stories -- Narratives, identities, rationality -- The market utopia -- Dis-integration -- Introduction: doing your part -- The rationality of reciprocity -- Normativity, recognition, and moral motivation -- Citizens and workers: the argument illustrated.

ISBN

0521867452
0521687047
9780521867450
9780521687041

LCCN

2006002126
9780521867450
9780521687041

OCLC

ocm63164928
63164928
SCSB-8799195

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library