Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Tables and Figures -- Editor's Foreword-The Age of Weber -- Author's Introduction-The Ambivalence of Reason: Max Weber's Analysis of Western Modernity -- PART ONE THE LIMITS OF 'RATIONALITY': FROM TRADITIONAL TO CRITICAL SOCIAL THEORY -- Editor's note to Part I -- 1. Reading Max Weber: Critical Theory and the Limits of Sociology -- 2. Critical Theory in America, 1938-1978: A Case of Intellectual Innovation and its Reception -- 3. Critical Theory and Social Science: Episodes in a Changing Problematic from Adorno to Habermas -- 4. Functional Rationality and 'Sense of Function': Critical Comments on an Ideological Distortion -- 5. Use Value and Substantive Rationality: Marx and Weber on Dichotomization in Modern Social Theory -- PART TWO RECONSTRUCTING SOCIAL SCIENCE: FROM SOCIAL THEORIZING TO REFLEXIVE PRAXIS -- Editor's note to Part II -- 6. Technocracy as Late Capitalist Ideology: Between Spectre and Myth -- 7. Communication, Deprivation and Mobilization: Notes on the Achievement of Communicative Action and Related Difficulties -- 8. Science, Technology, and Innovation: Reflections on Capital and Common Sense -- 9. Essential Process of Modernity: A Critical Analysis of Social Science Research Practices and an Alternative -- 10. Time, Space and Value: Recovering the Public Sphere -- Index -- INDEX OF NAMES -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.