Rationality and Power

Rationality and Power
Author: Bent Flyvbjerg
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1998-02-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780226254494

In the Enlightenment tradition, rationality is considered well-defined. However, the author of this study argues that rationality is context-dependent, and that the crucial context is determined by decision-makers' political power. He uses a real-world Danish project to illustrate this theory.

Critical Studies of Innovation

Critical Studies of Innovation
Author: Benoît Godin
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2017-05-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1785367226

Different theories, models and narratives of innovation compete for both legitimacy and authority. However, despite the variations, they all offer a consistent pro-innovation bias, dismissing resistance as irrational, and overlooking the value of non-users and collateral impacts. This book looks at innovation from a different perspective and asks, what has been left out? It offers a reflexive view and invites researchers to consider new avenues of research, through a critique of current representations of innovation.

Max Weber, Rationality and Modernity

Max Weber, Rationality and Modernity
Author: Sam Whimster
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2014-04-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 131783335X

This book brings together leading figures in history, sociology, political science, feminism and critical theory to interpret, evaluate, criticize and update Weber's legacy. In a collection of specially commissioned pieces and translated articles the Weberian scholarship recognizes Max Weber as the figure central to contemporary debates on the need for societal rationality, the limits of reason and the place of culture and conduct in the supposedly post-religious age. In Part 1, Wolfgang Mommsen, Wilhelm Hennis, Guenther Roth and Wolfgang Schluchter provide a full and varied account of the theme of rationalization in the world civilizations. In Part 2 Pierre Bourdieu and Barry Hindess critically examine Weber's social action model, and Johannes Weiss and Martin Albrow address the putative 'crisis' of Western rationality. In Part 3 Jeffrey Alexander, Ralph Schroeder, Bryan Turner, Roslyn Bologh and Sam Whimster scrutinize Weber's understanding of modernity with its characteristic plurality of 'gods and demons'; they focus on its implications for individuality and personality, the body and sexuality, feminism and aesthetic modernism. Part 4 turns to politics, law and the state in the contemporary world: Colin Gordon on liberalism, Luciano Cavalli on charismatic politics, Stephen Turner and Regis Factor on decisionism and power and Scott Lash on modernism, substantice rationality and law. This book was first published in 1987.

Rational and Social Agency

Rational and Social Agency
Author: Manuel Vargas
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2014
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0199794510

Michael Bratman's work has been unusually influential, with significance in disciplines as diverse as philosophy, computer science, law, and primatology.The essays in this volume engage with ideas and themes prominent in Bratman's work. The volume also includes a lengthy reply by Bratman that breaks new ground and deepens our understanding of the nature of action, rationality, and social agency.

Rationality in Science, Religion, and Everyday Life

Rationality in Science, Religion, and Everyday Life
Author: Mikael Stenmark
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2016-09-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0268091676

Mikael Stenmark examines four models of rationality and argues for a discussion of rationality that takes into account the function and aim of such human practices as science and religion.

Two Kinds of Rationality

Two Kinds of Rationality
Author: T. M. S. Evens
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 1995
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0816626421

Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible to scholars, students, researchers, and general readers. Rich with historical and cultural value, these works are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The books offered through Minnesota Archive Editions are produced in limited quantities according to customer demand and are available through select distribution partners.

Explorations in Planning Theory

Explorations in Planning Theory
Author: Luigi Mazza
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 564
Release: 2017-09-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351520938

What is this thing called planning? What is its domain? What do planners do? How do they talk? What are the limits and possibilities for planning imposed by power, politics, knowledge, technology, interpretation, ethics, and institutional design? In this comprehensive volume, the foremost voices in planning explore the foundational ideas and issues of the profession.Explorations in Planning Theory is an extended inquiry into the practice of the profession. As such, it is a landmark text that defines the field for today's planners and the next generation. As Seymour J. Mandelbaum notes in the introduction, ""the shared framework of these essays captures a pervasive interest in the behavior, values, character, and experience of professional planners at work.""All of the chapters in this volume are written to address arguments that are important in the community of planning theoreticians and are crafted in the language of that community. While many of the contributors included here differ in their styles, the editors note that students, experienced practitioners, and scholars of city and regional planning will find this work illuminating and helpful in their research.

Practice

Practice
Author: Stan Allen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1135763755

Conversant in contemporary theory and architectural history, Stan Allen argues that concepts in architecture are not imported from other disciplines, but emerge through the materials and procedures of architectural practice itself. Drawing on his own experience as a working architect, he examines the ways in which the tools available to the architect affect the design and production of buildings. This second edition includes revised essays together with previously unpublished work. Allen’s seminal piece on Field Conditions is included in this reworked, revised and redesigned volume. A compelling read for student and practitioner alike.

The Philistine Controversy

The Philistine Controversy
Author: Dave Beech
Publisher: Verso
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2002-06-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781859843741

Dave Beech and John Roberts develop what they call a 'counter-intuitive' notion of the philistine, with insights on cultural division and exclusion.

The Antibiotic Era

The Antibiotic Era
Author: Scott H. Podolsky
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2015-01-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1421415933

During the post-World War II "wonder drug" revolution, antibiotics were viewed as a panacea for mastering infectious disease. This book narrates the far-reaching history of antibiotics, focusing particularly on reform efforts that attempted to fundamentally change how antibiotics are developed and prescribed