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Habermas : A Critical Introduction
$17.32
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This new book provides a concise and exceptionally clear introduction to Habermas's work, from his early writings on the public sphere to his most recent work on law and the state. Outhwaite examines all of Habermas's major works and steers a steady course through the many debates to which they have given rise.
A major feature of the book is that it provides a detailed critical analysis of Habermas's most important work, The Theory of Communicative Action. Outhwaite also discusses Habermas's appraisal of Foucault, Derrida and others, his resolute defence of the Enlightenment project and his important recent work on law and democracy.
Willaim Outhwaite is Professor of Socialogy at the University of Sussex.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following edition:
Title Habermas: a critical introduction
Author William Outhwaite
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1994
ISBN 0804724784, 9780804724784
Length 194 pages
Contents
Scientism in Theory and Practice 20
Communication and Discourse Ethics 38
Social Evolution and Legitimation 58
The Colonization of the Lifeworld 82
An Assessment 109
Law and the State 137
Habermas and the Future of Critical Theory 152
Bibliography 180
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Subjects:
Act (Philosophy)
Communication
Critical theory
Frankfurt school of sociology
Habermas, Jurgen
Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication
Law
Philosophy / Criticism
Philosophy / General
Philosophy / History & Surveys / General
Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern
Philosophy, Modern
Social Science / Sociology / General
Social aspects
Social evolution
Paradoxes of Modernity: Culture and Conduct in the Theory of Max Weber
$22.99
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One of the world’s preeminent Max Weber scholars here presents a comprehensive analysis of Weber’s ambiguous stance toward modernity considered from a normative, theoretical, and historical point of view.
The book is in two parts. Part One scrutinizes Weber’s worldview. On the basis of his thinking about the meaning and interrelationships of science, politics, and ethics in the modern era, Weber is seen as the embodiment of a social scientist and political thinker who exposes himself to intellectual risks and existential tensions while resisting final solutions. His unceasing dedication to social science and to the politics of responsibility went hand in hand with his conviction that even living for these concepts could never be completely fulfilling. This becomes especially apparent in the author’s masterly analysis of Weber’s two famous speeches “Science as a Vocation” and “Politics as a Vocation.” The author explores the historical context of these influential but widely misunderstood addresses and describes in detail how they enunciated Weber’s distinction between an ethics of conviction and an ethics of responsibility.
Part Two considers Weber’s unfinished project on the sociology of religion. His planned but only partially achieved works on Islam and Western Christianity have challenged the author to attempt to piece them together and to locate them in the history and theory of Weber’s overall work. This reconstruction of Weber’s work on religion emphasizes its interplay between religion, economy, politics, and law. It also is the clearest and most detailed exposition of Weber’s view of the constellation of factors that were responsible for modern Western economic development.
Wolfgang Schluchter is Professor of Sociology at the University of Heidelberg.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following edition:
Title Paradoxes of modernity: culture and conduct in the theory of Max Weber
Authors Wolfgang Schluchter, Neil Solomon
Editor Neil Solomon
Translated by Neil Solomon
Edition illustrated, annotated
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1996
ISBN 0804724555, 9780804724555
Length 389 pages
Subjects:
Biography & Autobiography / General
Political sociology
Politics and culture
Religion and sociology
Social Science / Sociology / General
Sociology
Weber, Max
