Politics of Agency

J. Jeremy Wisnewski is Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Hartwick College, USA.

• Contents: Preface; Assertions, clarifications and recommendations: outline of an approach to theories of human agency; The nature of human agency: the competing recommendations of humanism and naturalism; Constitutive rules and critical theory; Returning to the argument: atomism, holism and the social conditions of agency; Theory and the trouble with agency; Toward a pragmatic-therapeutic approach to human agency; Bibliography; Index.

’How human agency should be understood is a central question in the social sciences and this book offers itself as a useful way into the discussion of how to approach the debate. ... I salute this book for outlining a series of arguments in the philosophy of agency as seen in the philosophy of the social sciences, and thereby provoking further reflection on the topic. The wide range of authors touched on is meritorious (and useful)...’ Metapsychology Online Reviews