The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity
Contributors: Thomas McCarthy (Introduction); Frederick Lawrence (Translator)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: April 26, 1990
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780745608303
Subjects: Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; Philosophy
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?"