This book is a socio-historical analysis of rationalism as a worldview — that guides many of our actions in concrete everyday life — and as a philosophy — that guides our epistemological understanding of the reality around us. It explores the multifaceted manifestations of the idea in the Enlightenment philosophy, modern sociological theorising and in post-structural standpoints. The volume also critiques rationality from feminist, subaltern and post-colonial perspectives. Finally, it delves into the multilayered sociological significances of rationalisation of different domains of life.
Transdisciplinary in scope and with essays by foremost scholars in the field, this volume will be a major intervention across the humanities and the social sciences. It will be of interest to students and researchers in sociology, anthropology, history, philosophy, gender studies, political science, cultural anthropology, education, and religious studies.
Edited by:
Soumyajit Patra,
Tattwamasi Paltasingh
Imprint: Routledge India
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032880600
ISBN 10: 1032880600
Pages: 250
Publication Date: 11 November 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
1. Sociology of Rationality: An Introduction SECTION I: REFLECTING RATIONALITY: OVERVIEWS AND PERSPECTIVES 2.Enlightenment and Rationality 3. Reason in the Modern Age 4. Max Weber: Rational Action, Rationalism and Rationalisation: The Anatomy of Extinction 5.Weber’s Theory of Rationality: A Critical Reading 6. Postcolonial Rationality SECTION II: RATIONALITY OF THE MARGINALIZED 7. Feminisms and the Questions Concerning Rationality 8. Dependency and Protest: Choice and Rationality of the Marginalised 9. Modern Secular Rationality and ‘Christianisation-in-Depth’: Between Marx and Foucault SECTION III: RATIONALITY: CONTEXTUAL RAMIFICATIONS 10. Rationality and Economic Behaviour 11. Rationality, Consumerism and Lifestyle Choices: Narratives of Urban Youth 12. ‘McDonaldisation’ of Education: Context and Critiques SECTION IV: RATIONALITY: CRITIQUES AND CREATIVE CONVERSATIONS 13. Sociology in Irrationalities: Contexts of the Commons 14. Towards Deconstructive Rationality: Pathologies of Reason and Immanentist Counter-discourses 15. The Trajectory of Politics-Rationality Interface: A Conceptual Framework 16. Rationality and Beyond: Towards Planetary Conversations
Soumyajit Patra is Professor of Sociology, SKB University, Purulia, West Bengal, India. He is the former Coordinator of the Center for South Asian Studies, SKB University. Tattwamasi Paltasingh is Professor of Sociology and Head of the P.G. Department of Sociology at Sambalpur University, Odisha, India.
