1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787616303321

Autore

Parsons Stephen D.

Titolo

Money, time, and rationality in Max Weber : Austrian connections / / Stephen D. Parsons

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-315-81203-7

1-317-79732-9

1-317-79733-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (175 p.)

Collana

Routledge Studies in the History of Economics ; ; 60

Disciplina

330.15/7

Soggetti

Economics - Austria - History

Marginal utility

Central planning

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Transferred to Digital Printing 2006"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Weber and marginal utility theory: the Austrian connection; Weber and economic theory in Economy and Society; Preliminary excursion on Weber and marginal utility theory; Weber's essay on marginal utility theory: the Menger connection; Weber and marginal utility theory: the source of confusions; 2. Sociological and economic investigations of economic action: the critique of Menger; Weber and the status of economic theory: contra Menger?

Weber, marginal utility theory and mathematics3. Weber and the sociology of economic action: the critique of central planning; Weber and Austrian economics in Economy and Society; The formation and role of prices; 4. Rationality and economic action: a sociological perspective; Sociology, instrumental rationality and economic action; Formal and substantive rationality; Alternative understandings of Weber on formal rationality; 5. Situating rationality: planning and rational choice theory; Summary of instrumentally rational economic action

6. The significance of a monetary economy: Weber and HabermasHabermas, the system and action co-ordination; Habermas,



Weber and economic action; Habermas's analysis of money; 7. The debate on central planning: Weber, Mises and after; Weber and Mises: introductory note; Mises and the status of economic theory; Mises and the critique of central planning; Weber and 'technical opinion'; The debate since; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This unique study into the roots of Max Weber's Political Economy, is an intriguing read and a valuable contribution to the Weberian literature. Parsons argues that Weber's analysis is highly influenced by the Austrian School of Economics and the relationship between his critique of centrally planned economies and that of Mises.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483701703321

Autore

Joyce Ashlee

Titolo

The Gothic in Contemporary British Trauma Fiction / / by Ashlee Joyce

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

9783030267285

3030267288

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VII, 233 p.)

Disciplina

823.03

823.9209353

Soggetti

Fiction

European literature

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Literature, Modern - 21st century

Fiction Literature

European Literature

Contemporary Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: The Resurgence of the Gothic in Contemporary British Trauma Fiction -- Beyond the Event Horizon: Witnessing the Nuclear Sublime in Martin Amis's London Fields -- Gothic Collisions: Regarding



Trauma in Margaret Drabble's The Gates of Ivory -- Gothic Misdirections: Troubling the Trauma Fiction Paradigm in Pat Barker's Double Vision -- Witness or Spectator?: Gothic Interrogations of the Reader-Witness in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the intersection of trauma and the Gothic in six contemporary British novels: Martin Amis's London Fields, Margaret Drabble's The Gates of Ivory, Ian McEwan's Atonement, Pat Barker's Regeneration and Double Vision, and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. In these works, the Gothic functions both as an expression of societal violence at the turn of the twenty-first century and as a response to the related crisis of representation brought about by the contemporary individual's highly mediated and spectatorial relationship to this violence. By locating these six novels within the Gothic tradition, this work argues that each text, to borrow a term from Jacques Derrida, "participates" in the Gothic in ways that both uphold the paradigm of "unspeakability" that has come to dominate much trauma fiction, as well as push its boundaries to complicate how we think of the ethical relationship between witnessing and writing trauma.