Profesor Bryan S Turner

Max Weber: From History to Modernity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This wide-ranging and assured book, written by one of the leading Weber scholars in the English speaking world, shows us the many sides of Max Weber. The book provides an authoritative guide to the current burning issues in social theory, religion, rationalization, the body, modernization, postmodernism and capitalism. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in Weber's claim that the aim of sociology must be to explain what is distinctive about the times in which we live.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9780415103879
• ISBN-10: 0415103878
• Artikelnr.: 21380029

Autorenporträt

Profesor Bryan S Turner

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction 1. Max Weber and the Panic Culture of Postmodernism 2.
Max Weber's Historical Sociology Part One 3. Islam, Capitalism and the
Weber Theses 4. Origins and Traditions in Islam and Christianity 5. State,
Science and Economy in Traditional Societies 6. Religion and
State-Formation Part Two 7. The Rationalization of the Body 8. The Body
Politic Part Three 9. Simmel, Rationalization and the Sociology of Money
10. Nietzsche, Weber and the Devaluation of Politics Conclusion: Sociology
and the Science of `Man'