Gane, Nicholas <br/><br/>
Max Weber and Postmodern Theory:   Rationalization versus Re-enchantment 

 - New York:  Palgrave,  2024 
 - ix, 194p. 
<br/><br/> This book explores thematic parallels between Max Weber's theory of the rationalization and disenchantment of the modern world 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 and his theory of the crisis of modernity. It also specifies the nature of transgressive critiques of modern culture and their strengths and weaknesses. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781349960910 (HB) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Max Weber--Max Weber's Theory--Rationalization<br/>Post Modernism
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306  / GAN/M