The Vocation of Reason : Studies in Critical Theory and Social Science in the Age of Max Weber / / Hall Thomas Wilson |
Autore | Wilson Hall Thomas |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (424 p.) |
Disciplina | 301/.09 |
Collana | International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology |
Soggetto topico |
Rationalism
Sociology - History Sociology - Philosophy |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-46526-3
9786610465262 1-4237-1239-0 90-474-0286-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Acknowledgements -- 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. |
Altri titoli varianti | Studies in Critical Theory and Social Science in the Age of Max Weber |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450109803321 |
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Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2004 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Vocation of Reason : Studies in Critical Theory and Social Science in the Age of Max Weber / / Hall Thomas Wilson |
Autore | Wilson Hall Thomas |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (424 p.) |
Disciplina | 301/.09 |
Collana | International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology |
Soggetto topico |
Rationalism
Sociology - History Sociology - Philosophy |
ISBN |
1-280-46526-3
9786610465262 1-4237-1239-0 90-474-0286-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Acknowledgements -- 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. |
Altri titoli varianti | Studies in Critical Theory and Social Science in the Age of Max Weber |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783205103321 |
Wilson Hall Thomas
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Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2004 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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