TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gane, Nicholas
TI  - Max Weber and Postmodern Theory: : Rationalization versus Re-enchantment
SN  - 9781349960910 (HB)
U1  - 306 
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave
KW  - Max Weber
KW  - Max Weber's Theory
KW  - Rationalization
KW  - Post Modernism
N2  - 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
ER  -