@inbook{10.3138/j.ctt2tv3d6.8, ISBN = {9780802092243}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt2tv3d6.8}, abstract = {We are commemorating the first centenary of Weber’s manifesto on objectivity in social studies (Weber 1988i).* This is a suitable occasion to celebrate because, as the dean of American philosophy put it recently, ‘Objectivity has fallen on hard times. Among some because of a failure to understand its linkage to rationality. Among others, who understand this linkage only too well, because rationality itself is an object of repugnance’ (Rescher 1997, 1). Indeed, objectivity calls for impersonal reason, and reason happens to be thebête noireof the New Age and postmodernism.The central thesis of Weber’s paper was that the}, author = {MARIO BUNGE}, booktitle = {Max Weber's 'Objectivity' Reconsidered}, pages = {117--134}, publisher = {University of Toronto Press}, title = {Did Weber Practise the Objectivity He Preached?}, year = {2007} }