Embattled reason : essays on social knowledge

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Embattled reason : essays on social knowledge

Reinhard Bendix

Transaction Books, 1988-c1989

2nd rev. ed

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  • v. 2

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v. 1 ISBN 9780887381102

Description

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.

Table of Contents

Preface, Acknowledgments, Part I: Conditions of Knowledge, Introduction, 1. Social Science and the Image of Man, 2. The Age of Ideology, Persistent and C hanging, 3. Sociology and the Distrust of Reason, 4. Science and the Purposes of Knowledge, Part II: Theoretical Perspectives, Introduction, 5. Images of Society and Problems of Concept Formation in Sociology (with Bennett Berger), 6. Social Theory and the Break with Tradition, 7. Culture, Social Structure, and Change, 8. Reflections on Modern Western States and Civil Societies (with John Bendix), 9. Changing Patterns of Authority in Relation to Industrialization and Social Protest, Part III: Studies of Modernization, Introduction, 10. Industrialization, Ideologies, and Social Structure, 11. Social Stratification and the Political Community, 12. Tradition and Modernity Reconsidered, 13. The Special Position of Europe, 14. The Intellectual's Role in the Modern World, Index
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v. 2 ISBN 9780887381973

Description

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.

Table of Contents

Part I: Biographical, Introduction 1. A Memoir of My Father 2. How I Became an American Sociologist 3. Emigration, Generations, and Ideas Part II: Intellectual Dialogues: Past and Present Introduction 4. Encounters with Marx 5. A Reading of Tocqueville's Letters 6. Values and Concepts in Max Weber's Comparative Studies 7. Inequality and Social Structure: A Comparison of Marx and Weber 8. Two Sociological Traditions: Durkheim and Weber 9. Max Weber and Jacob Burckhardt Part III: Ideas and Institutions: Ancient and Modern, Introduction 10. Transformations of Personal Charisma in Early Christianity 11. Sociological Reflections on the Early Christian Claim to Absolute Truth 12. The Advocacy of Science: Galileo 13. Advocates of Science and their Perplexities: From Bacon to Turgo 14. Comparative Industrialization: Japan and the Protestant Ethic 15. Comparative Industrialization: Culture and Politics in Western and Eastern Europe 16. The Position of the Social Sciences 17. A Personal Testimony on Twentieth-Century Social Change

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