Critical Social Science: Liberation and its Limits.

This book is a systematic attempt to understand the circumstances in which social can contribute to the assessment of social institutions. The author makes a distinctive contribution to analyzing fundamental problems of modern philosophy and social theory, expanding upon his previous writings in this area. Fay defines a critical social science as an attempt to understand in a rational fashion the nature of a just and humane social order and discusses both the limitations and the possibilities of what such an understanding can achieve.