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Max Weber, Rationality and Modernity

Author : Sam Whimster
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131783335X
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Max Weber, Rationality and Modernity written by Sam Whimster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together leading figures in history, sociology, political science, feminism and critical theory to interpret, evaluate, criticize and update Weber's legacy. In a collection of specially commissioned pieces and translated articles the Weberian scholarship recognizes Max Weber as the figure central to contemporary debates on the need for societal rationality, the limits of reason and the place of culture and conduct in the supposedly post-religious age. In Part 1, Wolfgang Mommsen, Wilhelm Hennis, Guenther Roth and Wolfgang Schluchter provide a full and varied account of the theme of rationalization in the world civilizations. In Part 2 Pierre Bourdieu and Barry Hindess critically examine Weber's social action model, and Johannes Weiss and Martin Albrow address the putative 'crisis' of Western rationality. In Part 3 Jeffrey Alexander, Ralph Schroeder, Bryan Turner, Roslyn Bologh and Sam Whimster scrutinize Weber's understanding of modernity with its characteristic plurality of 'gods and demons'; they focus on its implications for individuality and personality, the body and sexuality, feminism and aesthetic modernism. Part 4 turns to politics, law and the state in the contemporary world: Colin Gordon on liberalism, Luciano Cavalli on charismatic politics, Stephen Turner and Regis Factor on decisionism and power and Scott Lash on modernism, substantice rationality and law. This book was first published in 1987.

Max Weber, Rationality and Modernity

Author : Sam Whimster
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317833368
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Max Weber, Rationality and Modernity written by Sam Whimster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together leading figures in history, sociology, political science, feminism and critical theory to interpret, evaluate, criticize and update Weber's legacy. In a collection of specially commissioned pieces and translated articles the Weberian scholarship recognizes Max Weber as the figure central to contemporary debates on the need for societal rationality, the limits of reason and the place of culture and conduct in the supposedly post-religious age. In Part 1, Wolfgang Mommsen, Wilhelm Hennis, Guenther Roth and Wolfgang Schluchter provide a full and varied account of the theme of rationalization in the world civilizations. In Part 2 Pierre Bourdieu and Barry Hindess critically examine Weber's social action model, and Johannes Weiss and Martin Albrow address the putative 'crisis' of Western rationality. In Part 3 Jeffrey Alexander, Ralph Schroeder, Bryan Turner, Roslyn Bologh and Sam Whimster scrutinize Weber's understanding of modernity with its characteristic plurality of 'gods and demons'; they focus on its implications for individuality and personality, the body and sexuality, feminism and aesthetic modernism. Part 4 turns to politics, law and the state in the contemporary world: Colin Gordon on liberalism, Luciano Cavalli on charismatic politics, Stephen Turner and Regis Factor on decisionism and power and Scott Lash on modernism, substantice rationality and law. This book was first published in 1987.

Max Weber and Postmodern Theory

Author : N. Gane
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230502512
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Max Weber and Postmodern Theory written by N. Gane and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-04-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the contemporary nature of Max Weber's work by looking in detail at his key concepts of rationalization and disenchantment. Thematic parallels are drawn between Weber's rationalization thesis and the critiques of contemporary culture developed by Jean-Francois Lyotard, Michel Foucault and Jean Baudrillard. It is suggested that these three 'postmoden' thinkers develop and respond to Weber's analysis of modernity by pursuing radical strategies of affirmation and re-enchantment. Examining the work of these three key thinkers in this way casts new light both on postmodern theory and on Weber's sociology of rationalization.

Rationality and Modernity

Author : Gunnar Skirbekk
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rationality and Modernity written by Gunnar Skirbekk and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with rationality and modernity, focusing on the philosophical discussion of contexuality and universality concerning rationality and basic norms. Its perspective is that of the "pragmatic turn." Its discursive dimension is that of a mutual criticism between hermeneutic contextualism on the one hand and trans-contextual pragmatics on the other, or more precisely, between contextual praxeology as found in the late Wittgenstein and universal pragmatics as in Apel or in Habermas. Its basic concern is that of elaborating an improved conception of rationality as situated but still universally valid. On the one hand attempts are made to defend a pragmatic (gradualistic and "post-sceptical") notion of universal reason, including basic norms, and on the other hand there are attempts at case-oriented "piecemeal negotiations" and "sublations" by the use of arguments from absurdity (including self-referential arguments). Hence that which is philosophically novel and important can be summarized in terms of a pragmatic meliorism which allows for a universality denied by contextualist positions. At the same time this pragmatic meliorism, emphasizing attempts at overcoming the "negative," avoids some of the problems inherent in universalistic positions which predominately operate with "positive" goals and ideals.

Religion and Rationality

Author : Jürgen Habermas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745692591
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Rationality written by Jürgen Habermas and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new volume brings together Habermas' key writing on religion and religious belief. Habermas explores the relations between Christian and Jewish thought, on the one hand, and the Western philosophical tradition on the other. In so doing, he examines a range of important figures, including Benjamin, Heidegger, Johann Baptist Metz and Gershom Scholem. In a new introduction written especially for this volume, Eduardo Mendieta places Habermas' engagement with religion in the context of his work as a whole. Mendieta also discusses Habermas' writings in relation to Jewish Messianism and the Frankfurt School, showing how the essays in Religion and Rationality, one of which is translated into English for the first time, foreground an important, yet often neglected, dimension of critical theory. The volume concludes with an original extended interview, also in English for the first time, in which Habermas develops his current views on religion in modern society. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in theology, religious studies and philosophy, as well as to all those already familiar with Habermas' work.

Decision Making and Rationality in the Modern World

Author : Keith E. Stanovich
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Decision Making and Rationality in the Modern World written by Keith E. Stanovich and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Decision Making and Rationality in the Modern World, Keith E. Stanovich demonstrates how work in the cognitive psychology of decision making has implications for the large and theoretically contentious debates about the nature of human rationality. Written specifically for undergraduate psychology students, the book presents a very practical approach to decision making, which is too often perceived by students as an artificial set of skills used only in academia and not in the real world. Instead, Stanovich shows how good decision-making procedures support rational behavior that enables people to act most efficiently to fulfill their goals. He explains how the concept of rationality is understood in cognitive science in terms of good decision making and judgment. Books in the Fundamentals of Cognition series serve as ideal instructional resources for advanced courses in cognitive psychology. They provide an up-to-date, well-organized survey of our current understanding of the major theories of cognitive psychology. The books are concise, which allows instructors to incorporate the latest original research and readings into their courses without overburdening their students. Focused without being too advanced--and comprehensive without being too broad--these books are the perfect resource for both students and instructors.

Between Magic and Rationality

Author : Vibeke Steffen
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN 13 : 8763542137
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (635 download)

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Download or read book Between Magic and Rationality written by Vibeke Steffen and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Between Magic and Reality, Vibeke Steffen, Steffen Jöhncke, and Kirsten Marie Raahauge bring together a diverse range of ethnographies that examine and explore the forms of reflection, action, and interaction that govern the ways different contemporary societies create and challenge the limits of reason. The essays here visit an impressive array of settings, including international scientific laboratories, British spiritualist meetings, Chinese villages, Danish rehabilitation centers, and Uzbeki homes, where they encounter a diverse assortment of people whose beliefs and concerns exhibit an unusual but central contemporary dichotomy: scientific reason versus spiritual/paranormal belief. Exploring the paradoxical way these modes of thought push against reason's boundaries, they offer a deep look at the complex ways they coexist, contest one another, and are ultimately intertwined. Vibeke Steffen is associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen, where Steffen Jöncke is senior advisor. Kirsten Marie Raahauge is associate professor in the School of Design at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.

Weber's Rationalism and Modern Society

Author :
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137365862
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Weber's Rationalism and Modern Society written by and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weber's Rationalism and Modern Society rediscovers Max Weber for the twenty-first century. Tony and Dagmar Waters' translation of Weber's works highlights his contributions to the social sciences and politics, credited with highlighting concepts such as "iron cage," "bureaucracy," "bureaucratization," "rationalization," "charisma," and the role of the "work ethic" in ordering modern labor markets. Outlining the relationship between community (Gemeinschaft), and market society (Gesellschaft), the issues of social stratification, power, politics, and modernity resonate just as loudly today as they did for Weber during the early twentieth century.

The Limits of Rationality

Author : Roger Brubaker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135657289
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book The Limits of Rationality written by Roger Brubaker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Limits of Rationality Rogers Brubaker explores the intimate and ambiguous interplay between Max Weber's empirical work and his moral vision, between his historical and sociological analysis of the 'specific and peculiar rationalism' of modern Western civilization and his deeply ambivalent moral response to that rationalism. Weber's ideas about rationality are central to his sociological work, and they are central to his moral perspective. But these ideas are neither easily accessible nor easily understandable, in part because Weber never systematized them, in part because his work is usually encountered piecemeal and seldom studied in its entirety. Brubaker reconstructs Weber's rich but fragmented discussion of rationalism and rationalization in a systematic fashion, thereby illuminating his empirical and moral diagnosis of modernity - a diagnosis that remains unsurpassed in pathos and anyalytical power.

Another Modernity

Author : Scott Lash
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631164999
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (649 download)

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Download or read book Another Modernity written by Scott Lash and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1999-08-25 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is Lash's most comprehensive statement in social and cultural theory. It is a book addressed to sociologists and philosophers, to students of urban life, modern languages, cultural studies and the visual arts. Alongside the Enlightenment has emerged another modernity. This second modernity has - in opposition to the Enlightenment rationality of progress, order, homogeneity and cognition - initiated a different rationality of uncertainty, transience, experiment, and the unknowable. This second, this other modernity, is present in notions of 'difference' and 'reflexivity' so central to the contemporary world-view. The logic, however, of such notions can, itself, lead to the same unhappy abstraction of the first modernity. What is forgotten, Scott Lash argues, is the dimension of the ground. This book consists of explorations into this ground: as place, community, belonging, sociality, tradition, life-world; as symbol, sensation, in the tactile character of the sign. The book addresses the other modernity's forgotten ground. The first and second modernities co-existed in a state of irresolvable tension along the history of western industrial capitalism. This is thrown into crisis, Lash argues, with the turn of the twenty-first century emergence of the global information culture. What are the implications of this explosion of first and second modernities into today's technological culture? When the previously existing third space of difference is exploded into the general indifference of information and communication flows? How might we lead our lives in an age in which difference - and indeed the ground itself - become primarily a matter for memory, for mourning?

Rationality and Power

Author : Bent Flyvbjerg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226254494
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (544 download)

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Download or read book Rationality and Power written by Bent Flyvbjerg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-02-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Enlightenment tradition, rationality is considered well-defined. However, the author of this study argues that rationality is context-dependent, and that the crucial context is determined by decision-makers' political power. He uses a real-world Danish project to illustrate this theory.

Modernity and Plato

Author : Arbogast Schmitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781571134974
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Modernity and Plato written by Arbogast Schmitt and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sets itself the Herculean task of comparing and reconciling the modern and Platonic concepts of rationality.

Religion and Rationality

Author : Jürgen Habermas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745694411
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Rationality written by Jürgen Habermas and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new volume brings together Habermas' key writing on religion and religious belief. Habermas explores the relations between Christian and Jewish thought, on the one hand, and the Western philosophical tradition on the other. In so doing, he examines a range of important figures, including Benjamin, Heidegger, Johann Baptist Metz and Gershom Scholem. In a new introduction written especially for this volume, Eduardo Mendieta places Habermas' engagement with religion in the context of his work as a whole. Mendieta also discusses Habermas' writings in relation to Jewish Messianism and the Frankfurt School, showing how the essays in Religion and Rationality, one of which is translated into English for the first time, foreground an important, yet often neglected, dimension of critical theory. The volume concludes with an original extended interview, also in English for the first time, in which Habermas develops his current views on religion in modern society. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in theology, religious studies and philosophy, as well as to all those already familiar with Habermas' work.

The Subject of Modernity

Author : Anthony J. Cascardi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521423786
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book The Subject of Modernity written by Anthony J. Cascardi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-03-19 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of modernity has provoked a vigorous debate in the work of thinkers from Hegel to Habermas. Anthony J. Cascardi offers an historical account of the origins and transformations of the rational subject of self as it is represented in Descartes, Cervantes, Pascal, Hobbes and the Don Juan myth.

Rationality and Freedom

Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674013513
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Rationality and Freedom written by Amartya Sen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts in philosophy and the social sciences. In this, the first of two volumes, Amartya Sen brings clarity and insight to these difficult issues.

Rationality and Social Responsibility

Author : Joachim I. Krueger
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135703876
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Rationality and Social Responsibility written by Joachim I. Krueger and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2008-04-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The breadth of topics reflects Dawes's wide-ranging impact on psychological theory and empirical practice. The two themes of rationality and social responsibility feature heavily. The book serves as an overview of psychological science development in its struggle to reconcile what is true with what is good.

Interactive Minds

Author : Paul B. Baltes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521485678
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book Interactive Minds written by Paul B. Baltes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-04-26 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interactive Minds harnesses both research and theory from several disciplines to study cognitive development in the social context of the life course.