LEADER 04159nam 22006612 450 001 9910783205103321 005 20230617021858.0 010 $a1-280-46526-3 010 $a9786610465262 010 $a1-4237-1239-0 010 $a90-474-0286-3 024 7 $a10.1163/9789047402862 035 $a(CKB)1000000000033108 035 $a(EBL)253766 035 $a(OCoLC)171583265 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000268258 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11208227 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000268258 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10235571 035 $a(PQKB)11565768 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC253766 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL253766 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10089763 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL46526 035 $a(OCoLC)60820806 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789047402862 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000033108 100 $a20200716d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Vocation of Reason $eStudies in Critical Theory and Social Science in the Age of Max Weber /$fHall Thomas Wilson 210 1$aLeiden; $aBoston :$cBRILL,$d2004. 215 $a1 online resource (424 p.) 225 1 $aInternational Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology ;$v87 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-04-13631-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAcknowledgements -- List of Tables and Figures -- Editor's Foreword - The age of Weber, by THomas M. Kemple -- 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 on Part I -- I. Reading Max Weber: Critical Theory and the Limits of Sociology -- II. Critical Theory in America, 1938-1978: A Case of Intellectual Innovation and its Reception -- III. Critical Theory and Social Science: Episodes in a Changing Problematic from Adorno to Habermas -- IV. Functional Rationality and 'Sense of Function': Critical Comments on an Ideological Distortion -- V. 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 on Part II -- VI. Technocracy as Late Capitalist Ideology: Between Spectre and Myth -- VII. Communication, Deprivation and Mobilization: Notes on the Achievement of Communicative Action and Related Difficulties -- VIII. Science, Technology, and Innovation: Reflections on Capital and Common Sense -- IX. Essential Process of Modernity: A Critical Analysis of Social Science Research Practices and an Alternative -- X. Time, Space and Value: Recovering the Public Sphere -- Index. 330 $aThis book addresses, and at the same time reflects, the impact of Max Weber on both the social sciences and on critical theory's critique of the social sciences. Weber's conception of 'vocation' is a guiding thread unifying concerns about the nature, scope and limits of theoretical thinking among social scientists, whether supportive or critical of Weber. Not surprisingly, the source of many of these concerns, whether intended or unintended, biographical or situational, is the ambiguous legacy of Weber himself. Wilson's interrogation of Weber's thought in articles and essays over the past 30 years, supplemented by Kemple's insights, makes a strong case for the claim that we do indeed live in 'the age of Weber'. 410 0$aInternational Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology ;$v87. 517 3 $aStudies in Critical Theory and Social Science in the Age of Max Weber 606 $aRationalism 606 $aSociology$xHistory 606 $aSociology$xPhilosophy 615 0$aRationalism. 615 0$aSociology$xHistory. 615 0$aSociology$xPhilosophy. 676 $a301/.09 700 $aWilson$b Hall Thomas$01504413 801 0$bNL-LeKB 801 1$bNL-LeKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910783205103321 996 $aThe Vocation of Reason$93733399 997 $aUNINA