Embattled Reason: Volume 1, Essays on Social Knowledge

by Reinhard Bendix

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781000675535
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/06/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	378
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

REINHARD BENDIX

Table of Contents

Preface, Acknowledgments, Part I: Conditions of Knowledge, Introduction, 1. Social Science and the Image of Man, 2. The Age of Ideology, Persistent and C hanging, 3. Sociology and the Distrust of Reason, 4. Science and the Purposes of Knowledge, Part II: Theoretical Perspectives, Introduction, 5. Images of Society and Problems of Concept Formation in Sociology (with Bennett Berger), 6. Social Theory and the Break with Tradition, 7. Culture, Social Structure, and Change, 8. Reflections on Modern Western States and Civil Societies (with John Bendix), 9. Changing Patterns of Authority in Relation to Industrialization and Social Protest, Part III: Studies of Modernization, Introduction, 10. Industrialization, Ideologies, and Social Structure, 11. Social Stratification and the Political Community, 12. Tradition and Modernity Reconsidered, 13. The Special Position of Europe, 14. The Intellectual’s Role in the Modern World, Index