The Critique Of Instrumental Reason From Weber To Habermas

Author : Darrow Schecter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0826487718
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Critique of Instrumental Reason from Weber to Habermas written by Darrow Schecter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-05-20 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >

Author : George Ritzer
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761941873
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Social Theory written by George Ritzer and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2003-07-26 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Social Theory presents an authoritative and panoramic critical survey of the development, achievement and prospects of social theory.

Author : George McCarthy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351326066
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Objectivity and the Silence of Reason written by George McCarthy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues important to the philosophy of social science are widely discussed in the American academy today. Some social scientists resist the very idea of a debate on general issues. They continue to focus on behaviorist and positivist criteria, and the concepts, methods, and theories appropriate to a particular and narrow form of scientific inquiry. McCarthy argues that a new and valuable perspective may be gained on these questions through a return to philosophical debates surrounding the origins and development of nineteenth- and twentieth-century German sociology. In Objectivity and the Silence of Reason he focuses on two key figures, Max Weber and Jurrgen Habermas, reopening the vibrant and rich intellectual dispute about knowledge and truth in epistemology and concept formation, logic of analysis, and methodology in the social sciences. He uses this debate to explore the forms of objectivity in everyday experience and science, and the relations between science, ethics, and politics. McCarthy analyzes the tension in Weber's work between his early methodological writings with their emphasis on interpretive science, subjective intentionality, cultural and historical meaning and the later works that emphasize issues of explanatory science, natural causality, social prediction, and nomological law. While arguing for a value-free science, Weber was highly critical of the disenchanted and meaningless world of technical reason and rejected positivist objectivity. McCarthy shows how Habermas attempted to resolve tensions in Weber's work by clarifying the relationship between the methods of subjective interpretation and objective causality. Habermas believes that social science cannot be silent in the face of alienation, false consciousness, and the oppression of technological and administrative rationality and must adopt methodologies connected to the broader ethical and political questions of the day. Drawing deeply on the Kantian and neo-Kantian tradition that contributed to the development of Weber's method, Objectivity and the Silence of Reason demonstrates the crucial integration of philosophy and sociology in German intellectual culture. It elucidates the complexities of the development of modern social science. The book will be of interest to sociologists, philosophers, and intellectual historians.

Author : Jane Braaten
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791407592
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Habermas's Critical Theory of Society written by Jane Braaten and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an understanding of the content and aims of Habermas's critical theory of society -- the theory that analyzes the causes of our cultural lack of direction, polical apathy, and the increasing complexity of modern society. The author offers a foothold on the current debates regarding the credibility and cogency of the theory. Braaten presents Habermas's defense of his critique of reason in his most recent work concerning the confrontation between postmodernists and neoconservatives, and modernists and liberal theorists. She also explores the possibility of applying Habermas's critical resources in the United States in ways that he himself may not have considered.

Author : Martin Jay
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 029930650X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reason After Its Eclipse written by Martin Jay and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tackles a question as old as Plato and still pressing today: What is reason, and what roles does and should it have in human endeavor? The eminent intellectual historian Martin Jay surveys Western ideas of reason, particularly in German philosophy from Kant to Habermas.

Author : Michael J. Thompson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137558016
Total Pages : 739 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Theory written by Michael J. Thompson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is the only major survey of critical theory from philosophical, political, sociological, psychological and historical vantage points. It emphasizes not only on the historical and philosophical roots of critical theory, but also its current themes and trends as well as future applications and directions. It addresses specific areas of interest that have forged the critical theory tradition, such as critical social psychology, aesthetics and the critique of culture, communicative action, and the critique of instrumental reason. It is intended for those interested in exploring the influential paradigm of critical theory from multiple, interdisciplinary perspectives and understanding its contribution to the humanities and the social sciences.

Author : Steven C. Roach
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178811289X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Critical International Relations written by Steven C. Roach and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising a plurality of perspectives, this timely Handbook is an essential resource for understanding past and current challenges to democracy, justice, social and gender equality, identity and freedom. It shows how critical international relations (IR) theory functions as a broad-based and diverse critique of society.

Author : Juergen Habermas
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807015070
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theory of Communicative Action: Volume 1 written by Juergen Habermas and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major contribution to contemporary social theory. Not only does it provide a compelling critique of some of the main perspectives in 20th century philosophy and social science, but it also presents a systematic synthesis of the many themse which have preoccupied Habermas for thirty years. --Times Literary Supplement

Author : Rick Roderick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
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Download or read book Habermas and the Foundations of Critical Theory written by Rick Roderick and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lewis Edwin Hahn
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780812694277
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Habermas written by Lewis Edwin Hahn and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays discusses the work of Jurgen Habermas - the philosopher and exponent of the tradition known as Critical Theory. His works defend the Enlightenment ideas of rationality, humanism, and the possibilities of discourse.