The vocation of reason : studies in critical theory and social science in the age of Max Weber /
Wilson (York U., Toronto) collects ten journal articles and book chapters published between 1976 and 2004 on the thought, influence, and milieu of American philosopher Weber (1864-1920). Some consider the limits of rationality by discussing such topics as critical theory in American from 1938 to 197...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2004.
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Colección: | International studies in sociology and social anthropology ;
v. 87. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements
- List of Tables and Figures
- Editor's Foreword-The Age of Weber
- Author's Introduction-The Ambivalence of Reason: Max Weber's Analysis of Western Modernity
- PART ONE THE LIMITS OF 'RATIONALITY': FROM TRADITIONAL TO CRITICAL SOCIAL THEORY
- Editor's note to Part I
- 1. Reading Max Weber: Critical Theory and the Limits of Sociology
- 2. Critical Theory in America, 1938-1978: A Case of Intellectual Innovation and its Reception
- 3. Critical Theory and Social Science: Episodes in a Changing Problematic from Adorno to Habermas.
- 4. Functional Rationality and 'Sense of Function': Critical Comments on an Ideological Distortion
- 5. Use Value and Substantive Rationality: Marx and Weber on Dichotomization in Modern Social Theory
- PART TWO RECONSTRUCTING SOCIAL SCIENCE: FROM SOCIAL THEORIZING TO REFLEXIVE PRAXIS
- Editor's note to Part II
- 6. Technocracy as Late Capitalist Ideology: Between Spectre and Myth
- 7. Communication, Deprivation and Mobilization: Notes on the Achievement of Communicative Action and Related Difficulties
- 8. Science, Technology, and Innovation: Reflections on Capital and Common Sense.
- 9. Essential Process of Modernity: A Critical Analysis of Social Science Research Practices and an Alternative
- 10. Time, Space and Value: Recovering the Public Sphere
- Index
- INDEX OF NAMES
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- INDEX OF SUBJECTS
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