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Ross Poole displays the social content of the various conceptions of morality at work in contemporary society, and casts a strikingly fresh light on such fundamental problems as the place of reason in ethics, moral objectivity and the distinction between duty and virtue. The book provides a critical account of the moral theories of a number of major philosophers, including Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, Habermas, Rawls, Gewirth and MacIntyre. It also ...

This book argues that the modern world calls into existence certain conceptions of morality, but destroys the grounds for taking them seriously. Modernity both needs morality and makes it impossible.

Nation and Identity provides a concise and comprehensive account of the place of national identity in modern life. Ross Poole argues that the nation became a fundamental organising principle of social, political and moral life during the period of early modernity and that is has provided the organising principle of much liberal, republican and democratic thought. Ross Poole offers us a new and urgently needed analysis of the concept of identit...

Nation and Identity" offers a new and urgently needed analysis of the concept of national identity. Ross Poole shows how the nation became a fundamental organizing principle of social, political and moral life in the period of early modernity, and has been a presupposition of most liberal, republican and democratic theory ever since. Identity is the key to a provocative and original treatment of freedom, citizenship, multiculturalism and the c...