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Embattled Reason: Volume 1, Essays on Social Knowledge - Softcover

Bendix, Reinhard

 
9781138509481: Embattled Reason: Volume 1, Essays on Social Knowledge
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ISBN 10: 1138509485 ISBN 13: 9781138509481
Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

Embattled Reason constitutes an intellectual profile of one of America's preeminent sociologists. This collection of essays, published over the course of thirty years, embodies a series of intellectual choices in response to current concerns and to debates of the past, affording a coherent and unified view of Bendix's work as a whole.The articles are grouped under three headings. In "Conditions of Knowledge" the author is concerned with the value assumptions basic to the social sciences. Under "Theoretical Perspectives" the author presents the guiding considerations of his own work in a continuing dialogue with such thinkers as Tocqueville, Marx, Durkheim, and Weber. In the last section, "Studies of Modernization," Bendix takes up problems involved in an analysis of social change though a reexamination of evolutionist assumptions.

Reinhard Bendix is professor of sociology and political science at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138509485
ISBN 13 
9781138509481
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
2
Number of pages
378