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lmost a decade after his last book (God, Philosophy, Universities: A Selective History of Catholic Philosophical Tradition, 2009) Alasdair MacIntyre has once more graced his readers with an opus poised to equal, if not surpass, his now classic work, After Virtue (1981). Quite frankly, it is very tempting to take this latest offering from the Scottish-American philosopher as an updating of his reconstruction of Aristotelian ethics which he proposed, via the aforementioned magnum opus, as a philosophic remedy to mitigate the interminable moral disagreements spawned by modernity. Anyone with adequate familiarity with the MacIntyrean literature would not miss a sense of both continuity and contiguity between the present text and the themes developed elsewhere by MacIntyre. Its comparative worth notwithstanding, the book easily qualifies as a stand-alone reader which could be conveniently enjoyed either by an avid MacIntyrean or a newbie who forays into his oeuvre for the first time. In other words, while an exposure to MacIntyre’s writings could be of help, in particular, his critique of modern ethics, its absence by no means poses a barrier to the uninitiated given MacIntyre’s proclivity to write in his usual pedagogic, magisterial style. Simply put, the text at hand, like most materials authored by him, is a testament to that rare virtue among philosophers, especially the great ones, to give their thoughts an organic structure, clarify their premises, hint at their conclusions, define their terms and provide transition segments which would allow the reader to sustain his attention in between narrative and conceptual shifts. This indeed is a positive feature but something that is not without paradox considering MacIntyre’s avowed aversion to ethics’ unfortunate decadence into a field of academic philosophy. As in his other writings, MacIntyre, in this particular book, raises his concern against ethics’ narrowing into a compartmentalized knowledge domain under the watch of the so-called experts—theorists, professors, researchers, consultants—who

MacIntyre, Alasdair, Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative