When After Virtue first appeared in 1981?? it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. Newsweek called it ??a stunning new study of ethics by one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world.?? Since that time?? the book has been translated into more than fifteen foreign languages and has sold over one hundred thousand copies. Now?? twenty-five years later?? the University of Notre Dame Press is pleased to release the third edition of After Virtue?? which includes a new prologue ??After Virtue after a Quarter of a Century.??

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In this classic work?? Alasdair MacIntyre examines the historical and conceptual roots of the idea of virtue?? diagnoses the reasons for its absence in personal and public life?? and offers a tentative proposal for its recovery. Whil