Quotes by : Nicholas Gane

... The political leader must constantly appraise and reappraise the means through which 'he can hope....

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

... With the rise of modern scientific (or 'rational') knowledge religion is, for the first time, challenged....

With the rationalization of culture, and the corresponding disenchantment of religious ideas and beliefs,....

In The Inhuman... Lyotard, like Weber, reminds us of the distinction between technological development....

... Weber insists that one should not give up or lose faith in the face of this struggle. Indeed, he....

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

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

Science, while of value in so far as it can be used to address and even answer logical or technical questions,....

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