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The Vocation of Reason: Studies in Critical Theory and Social Science in the Age of Max Weber: International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology, cartea 87

Autor Hall Thomas Wilson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 dec 2003
This 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’.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004136311
ISBN-10: 9004136312
Pagini: 376
Dimensiuni: 160 x 240 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.75 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology


Public țintă

For readers interested in the legacy of Max Weber and other classical sociologists, the Frankfurt School of critical social theory, the history and importance of the social sciences in the 20th century [See also Prof. Wilson's answer to this question].

Cuprins

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

Notă biografică

H.T. Wilson, Ph.D. (1968) is a Professor at York University, Toronto. His most recent works include No Ivory Tower (Voyageur,1999), Bureaucratic Representation (Brill, 2001) and Capitalism after Postmodernism (Brill, 2002). His present work addresses the impact of spatial and temporal values on social, political and economic institutions and practices.
Thomas M. Kemple, Ph.D. (1992) in Social and Political Thought, York University, Toronto. He has published on classical sociology and contemporary cultural theory, including Reading Marx Writing: Melodrama, the Market, and the 'Grundrisse' (Stanford University Press, 1995).