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Max Weber and the Dispute over Reason and Value
288 Pages
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Routledge
286 Pages
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Routledge
288 Pages
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Routledge
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The problem of the nature of values and the relation between values and rationality is one of the defining issues of twentieth-century thought and Max Weber was one of the defining figures in the debate. In this book, Turner and Factor consider the development of the dispute over Max Weber's contribution to this discourse, by showing how Weber's views have been used, revised and adapted in new... Read more
Introduction 1. Problems of context and interpretation 2. Reason and decision: Weber's core doctrine and value choices i. The nature of value choice ii. Weber's 'scholarly' value choice iii. Weber's 'political' value choice 3. Weber's political design 4. The Weimar era dispute 5. Words into action: Jaspers and Heidegger 6. Nazism, Fascism and the later dispute 7. The ermergence of the dispute in England i. The English crisis of culture ii. The American context 8. The issue reframed: positivism and value-free social science i. Logical positivism and the dispute 9. the later form of the critique
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Stephen P. Turner, Regis A. Factor
