基本説明
Addresses the impact of Max Weber on both the social sciences and on critical theory's critique of the social sciences.
Full Description
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.
Contents
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