Limits of Rationality

Rogers Brubaker

ISBN 10: 004301173X / ISBN 13: 9780043011737

Published by Unwin Hyman, 1984

Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G004301173XI5N10

Synopsis:

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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Limits of Rationality
Publisher: Unwin Hyman
Publication Date: 1984
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Fair
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket