Vocation of Reason

Studies in Critical Theory and Social Science in the Age of Max Weber

AvHall Thomas Wilson

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

Del 87 i serien International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology

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Beskrivning

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’.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2003-12-05
Mått:160 x 240 x 24 mm
Vikt:716 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology
Antal sidor:376
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004136311

Utforska kategorier

Sociologi och antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

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).

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsList of Tables and FiguresEditor’s Foreword – The age of Weber, by THomas M. KempleAuthor’s Introduction – The Ambivalence of Reason: Max Weber’s Analysis of Western ModernityPART ONE. THE LIMITS OF ‘RATIONALITY’: FROM TRADITIONAL TO CRITICAL SOCIAL THEORYEditor’s note on Part II. Reading Max Weber: Critical Theory and the Limits of SociologyII. Critical Theory in America, 1938-1978: A Case of Intellectual Innovation and its ReceptionIII. Critical Theory and Social Science: Episodes in a Changing Problematic from Adorno to HabermasIV. Functional Rationality and ‘Sense of Function’: Critical Comments on an Ideological DistortionV. Use Value and Substantive Rationality: Marx and Weber on Dichotomization in Modern Social TheoryPART TWO. RECONSTRUCTING SOCIAL SCIENCE: FROM SOCIAL THEORIZING TO REFLEXIVE PRAXISEditor’s note on Part IIVI. Technocracy as Late Capitalist Ideology: Between Spectre and MythVII. Communication, Deprivation and Mobilization: Notes on the Achievement of Communicative Action and Related DifficultiesVIII. Science, Technology, and Innovation: Reflections on Capital and Common SenseIX. Essential Process of Modernity: A Critical Analysis of Social Science Research Practices and an AlternativeX. Time, Space and Value: Recovering the Public SphereIndex