The modern preoccupation with rationality, technologies of organization, has characterized the work of many leading 20th-century thinkers, including especially Max Weber and Michel Foucault. These social philosophers have argued that modern social institutions and organizations are underpinned by a generic logic which is intimately linked to the rise of instrumental rationality as the organizing axiom of modern social life. The contributors to this volume take up this wider concern with the organization of modernity and explore its implications. This book, the second of a two-part series dedicated to the work of Robert Cooper on the social theory of organization and technology, explores the intricate relationships that exist between technology, representation and organization from a diversity of perspectives, ranging from a discussion of actor-network theory to the deconstructive analysis of such icons of modernity as stability, subjectivity and wholeness. The collection includes a chapter from Robert Cooper, as well as an interview with him.;
The book relocates the study of organization within the field of technology within the wider field of social theory, where the themes of mode
- ISBN10 0415127572
- ISBN13 9780415127578
- Publish Date 30 September 1996
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 19 March 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Routledge
- Format Paperback
- Pages 208
- Language English