Objectivity And The Silence Of Reason: Weber, Habermas, And The Methodological Disputes In German Sociology

Objectivity And The Silence Of Reason: Weber, Habermas, And The Methodological Disputes In German Sociology
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McCarthy focuses on two key figures, Max Weber and Jrgen Habermas, reopening the vibrant and rich intellectual dispute about knowledge and truth in epistemology and concept formation, logic of analysis, and methodology in the social sciences. He uses this debate to explore the forms of objectivity in everyday experience and science, and the relations between science, ethics, and politics.

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