Main description:
For Weber is recognized widely as one of the most incisive and stimulating books on Weber in the post-war period. Writing in defence of Weber's sociology against the criticism of academic sociology by Marxists such as Louis Althusser, Bryan Turner, a leading Weberian scholar, rejects the view that Weber's sociology is bourgeois, subjectivist and individualistic.
This Second Edition, now available in paperback, includes a new Preface which reviews the scholarship on Weber since 1981. The book also provides a survey of the strengths and weaknesses of the major sociological approaches in the post-war period.
Table of contents:
Introduction
Marx and Nietzsche
PART ONE: MARXISM
Logic and Fate in Weber's Sociology
Weber and Structural Marxism
Weber and the Frankfurt School
PART TWO: RELIGION
Religious Stratification
Theodicy, the Career of a Concept
Weber on Medicine and Religion
PART THREE: DEVELOPMENT
Feudalism and Prebendalism
Weber and the Sociology of Development
Weber's Orientalism
PART FOUR: CAPITALISM
Family, Property and Ideology
Weber and the Sociology of Law
Weber and Late Capitalism
For Weber is recognized widely as one of the most incisive and stimulating books on Weber in the post-war period. Writing in defence of Weber's sociology against the criticism of academic sociology by Marxists such as Louis Althusser, Bryan Turner, a leading Weberian scholar, rejects the view that Weber's sociology is bourgeois, subjectivist and individualistic.
This Second Edition, now available in paperback, includes a new Preface which reviews the scholarship on Weber since 1981. The book also provides a survey of the strengths and weaknesses of the major sociological approaches in the post-war period.
Table of contents:
Introduction
Marx and Nietzsche
PART ONE: MARXISM
Logic and Fate in Weber's Sociology
Weber and Structural Marxism
Weber and the Frankfurt School
PART TWO: RELIGION
Religious Stratification
Theodicy, the Career of a Concept
Weber on Medicine and Religion
PART THREE: DEVELOPMENT
Feudalism and Prebendalism
Weber and the Sociology of Development
Weber's Orientalism
PART FOUR: CAPITALISM
Family, Property and Ideology
Weber and the Sociology of Law
Weber and Late Capitalism