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Rationality and the ideology of disconnection / Michael Taylor

Author
Taylor, Michael, 1942 September 22-
Additional Titles
Rationality & the Ideology of Disconnection
Published
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvii, 218 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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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.
Summary
A powerful and provocative 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. The author's views are brought to bear on the economic way of thinking about the natural environment and on how and when the norm of fair reciprocity motivates us to do our part in cooperative endeavors. Throughout, the argument is adorned by thought-provoking examples that keep what is at stake clearly before the reader's mind.
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9780511618017 (ebook)
9780521867450 (hardback)
9780521687041 (paperback)
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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