01329nam a22002177a 4500 OSt 20250920120926.0 250920b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781349960910 (HB) kul 306 GAN/M Colon Classification Gane, Nicholas 1845 Max Weber and Postmodern Theory: Rationalization versus Re-enchantment New York: Palgrave, 2024 ix, 194p. 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. Max Weber Max Weber's Theory Rationalization 1846 Post Modernism 1552 ddc BK 751615 751615 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC PHL PHL PROC 2025-09-20 Modern Book Centre, MBC/0680/2024 Dtd 05/03/2025 1695.00 0 306 GAN/M PHL4818 2025-09-20 12:10:36 2025-09-20 BK