1st Edition

The Limits of Rationality

By Roger Brubaker Copyright 1984
130 Pages
by Routledge

130 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Specific and Peculiar Rationalism of Modern Western Civilization; Chapter 3 The Nature and Limits of Rational Action; Chapter 4 The Ethical Irrationality of the World; Chapter 5 Weber's Moral Vision;

Biography

Rogers Brubaker