Max Weber, Rationality and Modernity (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Whimster, Sam; Lash, Scott

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together leading figures in history, sociology, political science, feminism and critical theory to interpret, evaluate, criticize and update Weber's legacy. In a collection of specially commissioned pieces and translated articles the Weberian scholarship recognizes Max Weber as the figure central to contemporary debates on the need for societal rationality, the limits of reason and the place of culture and conduct in the supposedly post-religious age.

This book was first published in 1987.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317833352
• Artikelnr.: 41220289

Autorenporträt

Sam Whimster, Scott Lash

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Sam Whimster
Scott Lash; Part 1 The Processes of Rationalization; Chapter 1 Personal Conduct and Societal Change
Wolfgang Mommsen
Rainhild Wells; Chapter 2 Personality and Life Orders:
Wilhelm Hennis
Keith Tribe; Chapter 3 Rationalization in Max Weber's Developmental History
Guenther Roth; Chapter 4 Weber's Sociology of Rationalism and Typology of Religious Rejections of the World
Wolfgang Schluchter
Ralph Schroeder; Part 2 Rationalization and the Limits of Rational Action; Chapter 5 Legitimation and Structured Interests in Weber's Sociology of Religion
Pierre Bourdieu
Chris Turner; Chapter 6 Rationality and the Characterization of Modern Society
Barry Hindess; Chapter 7 On the Irreversibility of Western Rationalization and Max Weber's Alleged Fatalism
Johannes Weiss
Bruce Allen
Sam Whimster; Chapter 8 The Application of the Weberian Concept of Rationalization to Contemporary Conditions
Martin Albrow; Part 3 Problems of Modernity; Chapter 9 The Dialectic of Individuation and Domination: Weber's Rationalization Theory and Beyond
Jeffrey C. Alexander; Chapter 10 Nietzsche and Weber: Two 'Prophets' of the Modern World
Ralph Schroeder; Chapter 11 The Rationalization of the Body: Reflections on Modernity and Discipline
Bryan S. Turner; Chapter 12 Max Weber on Erotic Love: a Feminist Inquiry
Roslyn Wallach Bologh; Chapter 13 The Secular Ethic and the Culture of Modernism
Sam Whimster; Part 4 Reason and the Political Order; Chapter 14 The Soul of the Citizen: Max Weber and Michel Foucault on Rationality and Government
Colin Gordon; Chapter 15 Charisma and Twentieth-Century Politics
Luciano Cavalli; Chapter 16 Decisionism and Politics: Weber as Constitutional Theorist
Stephen Turner
Regis Factor; Chapter 17 Modernity or Modernism? Weber and Contemporary Social Theory
Scott Lash;