The vocation of reason : studies in critical theory and social science in the age of Max Weber

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...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Wilson, H. T.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004
Series:International studies in sociology and social anthropology ; v. 87.
Subjects:
Weber, Max, > 1864-1920.
Sociology > History.
Sociology > Philosophy.
Rationalism.
rationalism (philosophy)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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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