TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schecter,Darrow
TI  - The critique of instrumental reason from Weber to Habermas
SN  - 9781441152572
AV  - JA71 .S2793 2010eb
U1  - 320.01 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Continuum International Pub. Group
KW  - Weber, Max,
KW  - Habermas, Jürgen.
KW  - Political science
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Instrumentalism (Philosophy)
KW  - Reason
KW  - Instrumentalisme
KW  - Raison
KW  - reason
KW  - aat
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - Political
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; From Reason to Rationalization: The Emergence of the Weberian Paradigm -- The Revolutionary Critique of Instrumental Reason: Lukács and Benjamin -- Horkheimer, Adorno and Critical Theory -- The Ontological and Republican Critiques: Heidegger and Arendt -- Reason, Thinking and the Critique of Everyday Life -- From Rationalization to Communicative Action: The Emergence of the Habermasian Paradigm
N2  - What different kinds of reason are possible, and which ones are the most appropriate for a legitimate, as opposed to a merely legitimated state?The book opens with an analysis of Weber as a figure who marks a key moment of sociological transition. Weber articulates a distinctly different view to Enlightenment thinkers who believe in the capacity of reason to improve society and emancipate humanity from ignorance and domination. Weber signals that the institutionalization of the instrumental reason particular to industrial society might actually be an effective tool in the struggle for socia
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