Morality and Social Criticism: The Force of Reasons in Discursive Practice

by Richard Amesbury

This book brings recent developments in Anglo-American philosophy into engagement with dominant currents in contemporary European social theory in order to articulate a pragmatic account of moral criticism. Presented in a lively and accessible style that avoids technical jargon, Morality and Social Criticism argues that the objectivity of moral discourse can be preserved without recourse to the overweening philosophical ambitions of the Enlightenment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403938229
• ISBN13: 9781403938220
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.8"