...partial remedy is given with a familiar historical analogy that compounds the book's dispirited tone: What matters at this stage is the construction of...through the new dark ages which are already upon us. And if the tradition of the virtues was able to survive the horrors of the last dark ages, we are not...

...is alien” to the population (ibid.: 238). In these circumstances we have to begin more modestly: What matters at this stage is the construction of...through the new dark ages which are already upon us. And if the tradition of the virtues was able to survive the horrors of the last dark ages, we are not...

...one interesting ideological manifestation. CHAPTER 9 The “Subject” and Discourse of Managerialism What matters at this stage is the construction of...through the new dark ages which are already upon us. And if the tradition of the virtues was able to survive the horrors of the last dark ages, we are not...

...1986), pp. 63—80. 19. “What matters at this stage,” Maclntyre says at the end of After Virtue, “is the construction of local forms of community...moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages upon us” (p. 245). One could say that the difference between Maclntyre and Rorty comes down to a...

...liberalism as bereft of any virtue, and by advising that we establish “local communities of virtue within which civility and the intellectual and moral...the new dark ages which are already upon us.”¿ Yet, as I noted, the establishment of local communities is not Maclntyre's ideal. It is not the final...

...R. Fisher* "What matters at this stage" of the late twentieth century, Alasdair Maclntyre contends, "is the construction of local forms of community within...intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the dark ages which are already upon us" (1969:245). The conference from which this volume was drawn was,...

...are failing our heritage. This is what Maclntyre alluded to when he says at the end of'After Virtue: What matters at this stage is the construction of...through the new dark ages which are already upon us. And is the tradition of the virtues was able to survive the horrors of the last dark ages, we are not...

...are failing our heritage. This is what Maclntyre alluded to when he says at the end of After Virtue: What matters at this stage is the construction of...through the new dark ages which are already upon us. And is the tradition of the virtues was able to survive the horrors of the last dark ages, we are not...

...small remedies, at least. And that is exactly what Maclntyre proposes in the book's notorious climax: "what matters at this stage is the construction of...intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the dark ages that are already upon us." 39 In these terrible times, when all the old hierarchies of value...

...we should call a halt to the pursuit of moral and political 'transcendence' and 'devote ourselves to the construction of local forms of community within...the intellectual and moral life can be sustained'. 50 As for Lyotard, we have already noticed his use of the word 'terror' to characterise the idea of...