Quotes by : Nicholas Gane

... Protestantism, in its quest for 'rational knowledge' of God's purpose and for an understanding of....

... Weber insists that the value of science is always to be questioned and not simply presupposed.......

... It is not possible, says Weber, to confer the objective validity of facts on the basis of a value-judgement;....

[Art] acts as 'an instrument allowing us to see through the gaps of dominant ideologies, and the source....

... With the 'death' of God worldly values proliferate, separate out and are drawn into endless conflict....

Processes of rationalization and disenchantment engender a shift from a social order founded upon value-rational....

... The form of leadership must be the focus of constant reappraisal. Weber states, for example: 'Each....

Lyotard develops and extends Weber's argument regarding the disenchantment of art to suggest the Western....

[Concerning postmodernism:] The aim of this experimental history is to disturb the ontological security....

... The individual is still obliged to confer the legitimacy of mutually antagonistic values, for even....