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Kierkegaard After MacIntyre: Essays on Freedom Narrative, and Virtue. Edited by John Davenport and Anthony Rudd. Pp. 396. Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company, 2001. ISBN 0812694392, $26.95 (paper).
Fourteen brilliant essays together clarify the idea of ethical rationality by answering MacIntyre's charge that Either/Or masks a deep internal inconsistency between its concepts of the aesthetical and ethical, and broaden discussions of ethical selfhood in the dialogue between Kierkegaard and MacIntyre. Five of them, forming the first part, treat the reading of Either/Or in After Virtue. Seven more essays focus on "MacIntyre and Kierkegaard Today." And two more by Philip Quinn and MacIntyre are responses. Quinn, in his praise of unity and discord, rectifies what for him is a one-sided and unbalanced ethical landscape sketched by Norman Lillegard with his emphasis on unity and wholeness, and John Davenport with his insistence for...