![]() ![]() ![]() 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. 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. 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. 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. ![]() ![]() A fine first edition of Alasdair MacIntyre's (b. ![]()
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