Embattled Reason
Subtitle: Essays on Social Knowledge
By: Reinhard Bendix.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers; Routledge
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New Brunswick (U.S.A.)
Language: eng
Subjects: Sociology.; Social change.; Social structure.; Social history.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Selected essays published over a thirty-year period.
Publications by Reinhard Bendix: v. 2, p. 429-436.