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Agency and the Will: Committing to Make a Difference

Agency and the Will: Committing to Make a Difference

Blunden, Andy

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Book 378

AnthropologyGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 7, 2027

ISBN10: 9004780246
ISBN13: 9789004780248
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jan 7 2027
Pages: 236
Language: English
This book responds to widespread anxiety about the loss of 'agency', The origin of the concept of the Will is traced through theology, social philosophy, psychology and virtue ethics until Will is replaced with agency in postwar Structuralism. Here agency is not the opposite of structure but simply the means by which structure acts. The book offers an alternative to sociology to show how a person can can indeed make a difference in the world. The work relies on a synthesis of Hegel, Vygotsky, MacInytre's virtue ethics and Anthony Giddens' critique of Structuralism.

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