The Routledge International Handbook on Max Weber (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Sica, Alan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together leading scholars from various disciplines to illuminate Weber's thought in numerous areas, including the methodology and philosophy of social science, comparative religion, the rationalization process, political sociology, the sociology of law, and the Protestant ethic and the development of capitalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 500
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000642216
• Artikelnr.: 64356727

Autorenporträt

Alan Sica is Professor of Sociology and Founder and Director of the Social Thought Program at Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is the author of Book Matters: The Changing Nature of Literacy (Transaction/Routledge, 2016), Max Weber and the New Century (Transaction/ Routledge, 2017), Max Weber: A Comprehensive Bibliography (Routledge, 2017), and Weber, Irrationality, and Social Order (California University Press, 1988; 2018). He is the editor of Ideologies and the Corruption of Thought (Routledge, 1997), What is Social Theory? The Philosophical Debates (Blackwell, 1998), The Unknown Max Weber (Transaction Publishers, 2004), Social Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Present (Pearson/Routledge, 2004), Comparative Methods in the Social Sciences (Four Volumes, SAGE, 2006), Max Weber (Ashgate/Routledge, 2013) and The Anthem Companion to Max Weber (Anthem Press, 2016). He is also co-editor of Hermeneutics: Questions and Prospects (University of Massachusetts Press, 1983) and The Disobedient Generation: Social Theorists in the Sixties (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and former editor of the Sociological Theory and Contemporary Sociology journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Max Weber Today
Part I: The Life and Work
1. Weber Redivivus: Reconsidering the Life and Work
2. Max Weber: The Making of an Improbable Classic
3. Weber's Theory of Meaning
Modernity and the Value-Spheres
4. Rationalities and Rationalization
5. The Fracture in Weber's Sociological Thought: The Formation of a Comparative World-Historical Perspective
Part II: Methodology and Philosophy of the Social Sciences
6. Weber's Methodological Writings
7. Max Weber's Work and Our Times: The Sociological Significance of Weber's Methodological Insights
8. Academic Freedom Between Scientific Objectivity and Cultural Values
9. Modalities of Value Incommensurability: Associated Reflections
Part III: The Protestant Ethic and the Development of Capitalism
10. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904-05/1920)
11. Weber's Early Writings on Law: Medieval Mercantile Law and Agrarian Structures in Roman Antiquity
12. The Monastery Door Reopens
13. 'Weber's Thesis' and the Restoration of Capitalism in Baltic Countries
14. Capital and the Thrill of Domination
Part IV: Comparative Religion
15. Max Weber on China and Capitalism
16. Weber's Economic Ethos of the World Religions
17. Eastern Orthodox Christianity and the Other Spheres of Life in Max Weber's Russia
18. World Religions
World Attitudes
and Civilizations: Max Weber's Comparative Sociology of Religion and the Analysis of Indian Religiosity
19. Divine Positive Law: Ancient Judaism and Western Legality
Part V: Economy and Society and Rationalization Processes
20. Max Weber's Economic Sociology
21. The Notion of Formal Rationality in the Writings of Max Weber and Other Foremost Sociologists
22. Capitalism
Contingency
and Economic Development
23. Max Weber's Idea of Social Science in an Age of Formal Rationalization
Part VI: Sociology of Law
24. Max Weber's Sociology of Law
Then and Now
25. Max Weber's Comparative and Historical Sociology of Law: The Developmental Conditions of Law
26. A Critical Reading of Max Weber on Law and Its Rationalization
Part VII: Political Sociology
27. The Fate of Politics: The Vocation of the Political Educator
28. Weber's Concept of Traditional Herrschaft Reexamined: Is it Ever Superseded?
29. Deus ex Machina: The Problem of Legal-Rational Domination
30. The Politics of Responsibility
Charismatic Communities
and Non-legitimate Domination
31. Living (Together) with the Consequences of Value Struggle
32. Max Weber on Parliamentarism and Democracy
33. Revolution and Revolutionary Subjectivity: Links Between Politics
Ethics
and Violence
34. Max Weber and the Historical Fate of Liberal-Democracy