Two Kinds Of Rationality: Kibbutz Democracy and Generational Conflict (Volume 3) (Contradictions of Modernity) - Hardcover

Evens, T.M.S.

 
9780816626427: Two Kinds Of Rationality: Kibbutz Democracy and Generational Conflict (Volume 3) (Contradictions of Modernity)
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ISBN 10: 0816626421 ISBN 13: 9780816626427
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 1995

Synopsis

This book distinguishes between instrumental and mythic rationality, picturing the latter as a value rationality. Projecting reality as basically ambiguous, Evens offers a critique of theoretical approaches to social action and a rethinking of contemporary notions of human agency.

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About the Author

T.M.S. Evens is professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of numerous articles and coeditor of Transcendence in Society: Case Studies (1990), a comparative study of social movements.

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Publisher
Univ Of Minnesota Press
Publication date
1995
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0816626421
ISBN 13 
9780816626427
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
272

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