Max Weber, Rationality and Modernity

Herausgeber: Whimster, Sam; Lash, Scott

• Broschiertes Buch

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780415489546
• ISBN-10: 0415489547
• Artikelnr.: 26674660

Autorenporträt

Sam Whimster, Scott Lash

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part One: The Processes of Rationalization 1. Personal Conduct
and Societal Change 2. Personality and Life Orders: Max Weber's Theme 3.
Rationalization in Max Weber's Developmental History 4. Weber's Sociology
of Rationalism and Typology of Religious Rejections of the World Part Two:
Rationalization and the Limits of Rational Action 5. Legitimation and
Structured Interests in Weber's Sociology of Religion 6. Rationality and
the Characterization of Modern Society 7. On the Irreversability of Western
Rationalization and Max Weber's Alleged Fatalism 8. The Application of the
Weberian Concept of Rationalization to Contemporary Conditions Part Three:
Problems of Modernity 9. The Dialectic of Individuation and Domination:
Weber's Rationalization Theory and Beyond 10. Nietzsche and Weber: Two
'Prophets' of the Modern World 11. The Rationalization of the Body:
Reflections on Modernity and Discipline 12. Max Weber on Erotic Love: A
Feminist Inquiry 13. The Secular Ethic and the Culture of Modernism Part
Four: Reason and Political Order 14. The Soul of the Citizen: Max Weber and
Michel Foucault on Rationality of Government 15. Charisma and
Twentieth-Century Politics 16. Decisionism and Politics: Weber as
Constitutional Theorist 17. Modernity or Modernism? Weber and Contemporary
Social Theory