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Reason and Freedom in Sociological Thought (RLE Social Theory) (Paperback)
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Reason and Freedom in Sociological Thought (RLE Social Theory) (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
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How has reason, believed since the Enlightenment to be the ally of
freedom in the search for a better, more humanly satisfying world,
been reduced to a technical rationality that has actually
impoverished the bases of human freedom? What might be the options
and obligations for sociologists who wish to restore reason to its
proper status? Working within the tradition of C. Wright Mills and
Jurgen Habermas, Frank Hearn sets out to answer these questions. He
surveys the treatment of the relation between reason and freedom in
both the classical tradition (especially the writings of
Saint-Simon, Comte, Durkheim, Marx, Weber, and Freud) and an
increasingly significant segment of social thought and criticism
(and, for example, in the contrasting visions of Daniel Bell and
Christopher Lasch.) He then analyses both the concrete social and
historical forms of expression taken by what Mills calls
'rationality without reason' and their impact on individual
autonomy and the freedoms associated with democratic politics.
Finally, he develops Mills's and Habermas's claims that the
cultivation of democratic publics and a critical social theory
committed to a vibrant public life are indispensable to the
protection and revitalization of the values of reason and freedom
and of the practices they entail. This book updates and enriches
Mills's influential argument by demonstrating its affinity with
critical theory, by showing its contributions to a critical
understanding of the classical tradition, and by showing its
implications for contemporary social, political, and economic
developments.
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