1st Edition
Reason and Freedom in Sociological Thought (RLE Social Theory)
By Frank Hearn
Copyright 2015
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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How has reason, believed since the Enlightenment to be the ally of freedom in the search for a better, more humanly satisfying world, been reduced to a technical rationality that has actually impoverished the bases of human freedom? What might be the options and obligations for sociologists who wish to restore reason to its proper status? Working within the tradition of C. Wright Mills and... Read more
1. On Reason and Freedom 2. Conservatism and the Rise of Sociology 3. Marx and Weber: Reason, Rationality and Emancipation 4. Modernism: Freedom Without Reason 5. Capitalist Rationalization and Democracy 6. The Public Grounding of Reason, Freedom and Democracy 7. Critical Social Theory
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Frank Hearn
