1st Edition

Hegel and MacIntyre Reason in History

250 Pages
by Routledge

Hegel and MacIntyre: Reason in History  brings the work of foremost Anglophone moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre into dialogue with G. W. F. Hegel—two rationalist historicists whose affinities and tensions have often been noted, yet never before explored at book-length. The contributions in this collection, by leading Hegel and MacIntyre scholars and critical theorists, examine a wide range... Read more

List of Contributors

Reason and History, by way of Introduction

David Kretz


Section One

1.     Self-Knowledge and Human Life

Andrea Kern

2.     Between Sartre and Goffman: Alasdair MacIntyre and Hegel’s Theory of the Self

Tony Burns

3.     After Determinate Content: Reading MacIntyre as an Inferentialist

Caleb Bernacchio

 

Section Two

4.     Found or sought? Hegel vs MacIntyre on the Good Life and the Virtues
Robert Stern

5.     Saving the Enlightenment from Itself: Hegel versus MacIntyre on Teleology and Right
Dean Moyar

6.     Thomistic Aristotelians on the Sociality of Reason

Kelvin Knight

7.     Deweyan Democracy as a Way of Life: Pragmatist possibilities for MacIntyre
Ahmad Fattah

   

Section Three

8.     Freedom and Rational Agency in the Young MacIntyre

Michael Lazarus

9.     Alasdair MacIntyre: Under the Shadow of Hegel

Paul Blackledge

10.  From Freedom to Final End: MacIntyre’s Hegelian Aristotle

Jennifer Herdt

Biography

Michael Lazarus is Lecturer in Political Theory in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. He is the author of Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx (2025) and many articles and essays at the intersection of normative social theory and the critique of political economy.

Caleb Bernacchio is the Legendre-Soulé Chair in Business Ethics, Associate Professor of Management & Faculty Director of the Center for Ethics and Economic Justice at Loyola University New Orleans. His research focuses on the intersection of organization theory and neo-Aristotelian practical philosophy. He has published widely on aspects of Alasdair MacIntyre’s work as well on themes from Hegel’s practical philosophy. He is the author of Human Flourishing and the Firm (2026). His work has also been published in a range of journals including  Academy of Management Review, Acta Philosophica, Business Ethics: A European ReviewBusiness Ethics QuarterlyInternational Philosophical QuarterlyJournal of Business EthicsPhilosophy of Management, and Rethinking Marxism.

Ahmad Fattah was until recently an Honorary Research Fellow in the Dept of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. He was previously a visiting Graduate Student Researcher in the Dept of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He has a BA Degree in Political Science from the University of Western Ontario, and an MBA Degree from the University of Liverpool. He received his MA and PhD Degrees, in Philosophy, from the University of Sheffield, advised by Robert Stern.

David Kretz is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Humanities Program at Yale University. He received his PhD from the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago. Prior to that, he studied philosophy, intellectual history, and literature in Paris, Berlin, and his hometown Vienna.