The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity
Subtitle: Twelve Lectures (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
Contributors: Frederick G. Lawrence (Translator)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: March 14, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9780262581028
Subjects: Philosophy; Civilization, Modern; Philosophy, Modern; History & Surveys - Modern; Philosophy / General; 20th century; General; 19th century
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?"