The Frankfurt School and the Problem of Social Rationality in Thorstein Veblen  

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Tilman, Rick

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: History of the Human Sciences vol. 12 no. 1 (Feb. 1999), page 91–109.
Topik: critical theory; machine process; social rationality
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The Frankfurt School attacked Veblen ’ s claims regarding machineinduced rationality in industrial society.Their criticisms stemmed in part from the fact that Veblen failed to present his ideas systematically in a formal treatise on either economics or sociology, and because did not use concepts or jargon familiar to the critical theorists. This article thus aims at: (1) demonstrating through textual exegesis the meaning of social rationality in the corpus of Veblen’s writing, especially The Theory of Business Enterprise (1904); (2) elucidating the problems that arose in the Frankfurt School’s critique of Veblen because used nomenclature and conceptualizations unfamiliar to Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer; (3) reiterating Veblen's thesis on the impact of ‘transfer effects’ on workers interacting with the machine process; and (4) outlining the failure of the Frankfurt School adequately to examine his claims in the American political environment in which they were made.

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