Macintyre, Alasdair

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MACINTYRE, Alasdair

MACINTYRE, Alasdair. British, b. 1929. Genres: Philosophy. Career: Fellow, University College, Oxford, 1963-66; Professor of History of Ideas, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 1969-71; University Professor in Philosophy and Political Science, Boston University, 1972-80; Luce Professor, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, 1980-82; W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1982-88; University of Notre Dame, Indiana, McMahon/Hank Professor of Philosophy, 1988-94, Research Professor of Philosophy, 2000-; Arts and Sciences Professor of Philosophy, Duke University, 1995-2000. Publications: Marxism and Christianity, 1953; The Unconscious, 1958; Short History of Ethics, 1966; (with P. Ricoeur) The Religious Significance of Atheism, 1969; Marcuse: An Exposition and a Polemic, 1970; Against the Self-Images of the Age: Essays in Ideology and Philosophy, 1971; After Virtue, 1981; Whose Justice: Which Rationality?, 1988; Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry, 1990. EDITOR: (with A.G.N. Flew) New Essays in Philosophical Theology, 1955; Metaphysical Beliefs, 1957; Hume's Ethical Writings, 1966; (with D. Emmet) Sociological Theory and Philosophical Analysis, 1970; Hegel: A Collection of Critical Essays, 1972.