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Order Without Rules: Critical Theory and the Logic of Conversation
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Artikel-Nr:
9780791440568
Veröffentl:
1999
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.04.1999
Seiten:
188
Autor:
David Bogen
Gewicht:
209 g
Format:
228x150x12 mm
Serie:
Suny the Philosophy of the Soc
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
David Bogen is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Acting Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the author, with Michael Lynch, of The Spectacle of History: Speech, Text, and Memory at the Iran-Contra Hearings.
Since Max Weber social theory has been faced with a paradox -- the "problem of rationality" -- that seems to challenge the very foundations of critical and humanist visions of modern society. According to Weber, as industrial societies develop they increasingly are dominated by rational procedures for the production of goods, the organization of human resources, and the management of information. The paradox consists in the fact that while modern society is, in this instrumental sense, becoming more rationalized, the prospects for developing political and cultural institutions which are linked to a progressive vision of rational discourse and democratic-will formation are diminished.