| Description |
1 online resource (xlvii, 376 pages) |
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International studies in sociology and social anthropology, 0074-8684 ; v. 87 |
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International studies in sociology and social anthropology ; v. 87. 0074-8684
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| 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 |
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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 |
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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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W |
| Summary |
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 1978 as a case of intellectual innovation and its rec |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Weber, Max, 1864-1920
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| SUBJECT |
Weber, Max, 1864-1920 fast |
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Weber, Max. swd |
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Sociology -- History.
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Sociology -- Philosophy.
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Rationalism.
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rationalism (philosophy)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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Rationalism
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Sociology
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Sociology -- Philosophy
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Kritische Theorie
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Sozialwissenschaften
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Rationalisering.
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Rationaliteit.
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Kritische theorie.
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Sociologie.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1423712390 |
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9781423712398 |
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9004136312 |
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9789004136311 |
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1280465263 |
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9781280465260 |
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9786610465262 |
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6610465266 |
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9047402863 |
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9789047402862 |
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