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Max Weber and Postmodern Theory

Rationalization versus Re-enchantment

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  • © 2002

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  1. Nicholas Gane
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Nicholas Gane
      Pages 1-11

  4. Weber and Postmodern Theory: Lyotard, Foucault and Baudrillard

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. Intermediate reflection

      • Nicholas Gane
      Pages 83-88

    3. Weber, Lyotard and the Aesthetic Sphere

      • Nicholas Gane
      Pages 89-112

    4. Weber, Foucault and the Political Sphere

      • Nicholas Gane
      Pages 113-130

    5. Weber, Baudrillard and the Erotic Sphere

      • Nicholas Gane
      Pages 131-150

    6. Conclusion

      • Nicholas Gane
      Pages 151-156

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 157-194
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This book explores the contemporary nature of Max Weber's work by looking in detail at his key concepts of rationalization and disenchantment. Thematic parallels are drawn between Weber's rationalization thesis and the critiques of contemporary culture developed by Jean-Francois Lyotard, Michel Foucault and Jean Baudrillard. It is suggested that these three 'postmoden' thinkers develop and respond to Weber's analysis of modernity by pursuing radical strategies of affirmation and re-enchantment. Examining the work of these three key thinkers in this way casts new light both on postmodern theory and on Weber's sociology of rationalization.

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'Gane's book raises important questions, and fleshes out the strengths and limits of Weber's ideas in a way that has not been possible within the framework of traditional readings.' - Isher-Paul Sahni, Journal of Classical Sociology, 2003

About the author

NICHOLAS GANE is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York, UK. His previous publications include The Future of Social Theory.

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