Limits of rationality : an essay on the social and moral thought of Max Weber
- London : Routledge, 2010
- viii, 119 p. ; 24 cm
- Controversies in sociology .
Includes index and bibliography.
In The Limits of Rationality Rogers Brubaker explores the intimate and ambiguous interplay between Max Weber's empirical work and his moral vision, between his historical and sociological analysis of the 'specific and peculiar rationalism' of modern Western civilization and his deeply ambivalent moral response to that rationalism. Weber's ideas about rationality are central to his sociological work, and they are central to his moral perspective