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Kit-Man Li
Western Civilization and Its Problems [PDF ebook]
A Dialogue Between Weber, Elias and Habermas

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First published in 1999, this volume represents Kit-Man Li’s attempt to wrestle with the complicated issues and ideas drawn from Habermas’ theory of communicative action, Weber’s studies of western civilization and Elias’ insights on sociological theory. Li examines Weber, Habermas and Elias in turn in order to refine our understanding of modern Western civilization.

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Format PDF ● Pages 306 ● ISBN 9780429766688 ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2018 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 6794411 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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