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Romance and reason : ontological and social sources of alienation in the writings of Max Weber

Title
Romance and reason : ontological and social sources of alienation in the writings of Max Weber / Andrew M. Koch.
Author
Koch, Andrew M., 1953-
Publication
Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, ©2006.

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Description
xi, 244 pages; 23 cm
Summary
  • "In this new biography, Andrew M. Koch argues that Weber's understanding of the Enlightenment, in all its epistemological and ontological structures, conveys the Enlightenment itself as an alienating worldview. As a result, Koch contends, the full depth of Weber's body of work has yet to be excavated and studied. Romance and Reason is an analysis of the genesis of the concept of alienation and, in an imaginative and necessary turn, Koch works to re-create the context in which Weber understood alienation in both the intellectual and lived sense.
  • This book is a fundamental explication on the contemporary Weber and is a salient addition to sociology, cultural studies, cultural anthropology, and any field that is invested in understanding contemporary culture and society."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Weber, Max, 1864-1920 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Weber, Max, 1864-1920
  • Weber, Max
  • Alienation (Social psychology)
  • Alienation (Philosophy)
  • Social epistemology
  • Ontology > Social aspects
  • Rationalism
  • Social Alienation
  • rationalism (philosophy)
  • Entfremdung
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-232) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Max Weber and alienation -- The historical roots of Weber's view of alienation -- Max Weber's methodology : the limits of human knowledge -- Max Weber's ontology : the limits of the individual -- Rationality and the roots of social alienation -- Rationality and capitalism -- Bureaucracy and formal rationality -- Conclusions regarding Weber, alienation, and human subjectivity.
ISBN
  • 0739111019
  • 9780739111017
  • 0739113089
  • 9780739113080
LCCN
2005018293
OCLC
  • ocm60839302
  • 60839302
  • SCSB-8852517
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library