The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity
Subtitle: Twelve Lectures (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
Contributors: Frederick Lawrence (Translator)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: September 30, 1987
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9780262081634
Subjects: Philosophy; History & Surveys - General; Philosophy / General
First sentence: In his famous introduction to the collection of his studies on the sociology of religion, Max Weber takes up the "problem of universal history" to which his scholarly life was dedicated, namely, the question why, outside Europe, "the scientific, the artistic, the political, or the economic development . . . did not enter upon that path of rationalization which is peculiar to the Occident?"