Political Theology, Radical Democracy, and Virtue Ethics; or Alasdair MacIntyre and the Paradoxes of a Revolutionary Consciousness
This essay analyses three concerns that arise at the intersection of ethics and politics through situating the work of Alasdair MacIntyre, particularly his conception of the relationship between Christianity and Marxism, in the context of debates in the British New Left and drawing parallels and con...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
2021
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Political theology
Year: 2021, Volume: 22, Issue: 7, Pages: 627-649 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
MacIntyre, Alasdair C. 1929-
/ Politics
/ Ethics
/ Christianity
/ Marxism
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| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NCD Political ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Marxism and Christianity
B political agency B radical democracy B MacIntyre B tradition B Political Theology B Virtue Ethics |
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| Summary: | This essay analyses three concerns that arise at the intersection of ethics and politics through situating the work of Alasdair MacIntyre, particularly his conception of the relationship between Christianity and Marxism, in the context of debates in the British New Left and drawing parallels and connections between these debates and the work of C. L. R. James and Black Marxism. The first concern is the modern suspension of ethics in the name of politics. The second is the relationship between structural and personal transformation. The third is how forms of social life exceed, but are always under pressure from, existing forms of political economy and how this concern shapes articulations of political agency outside of statist and property-based understandings of citizenship. I contend that addressing these concerns is a background condition for the emergence of a revolutionary consciousness. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2020.1867406 |