The Vocation of Reason: Studies in Critical Theory and Social Science in the Age of Max Weber (International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology, 87)

Wilson, Hall Thomas

ISBN 10: 9004136312 / ISBN 13: 9789004136311

Published by Brill, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Vocation of Reason: Studies in Critical Theory and Social Science in the Age of Max Weber (International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology, 87)
• Publisher: Brill
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004136312
• ISBN 13: 9789004136311
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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’.

About the Author

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).