ISBN:
9780415402187
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (456 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Theory of Liberty, Legitimacy and Power
DDC:
306.2
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The stature of Max Weber (1864-1920) as an interdisciplinary, historical-comparative social scientist has grown steadily. But in view of Professor Murvar, his work has been misinterpreted with remarkable frequency. The aim of this book is to put right certain misconceptions and misinterpretations of Max Weber's intellectual and scientific legacy.This book challenges assumptions about various aspects of Weber's work; the issues of modernization, evolutionary theories, world systems, growth of liberty, typologies of power structures and legitimacies, among others. As well as presenting precise c
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction: theory of liberty, legitimacy, and power: new directions in the intellectual and scientific legacy of Max Weber; System-building: Ideological or scientific?; A consensus emerging?; Part I: Theoretical Perspectives; 2. Power and stratification: Max Weber and beyond; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; Conclusion; Notes; 3. Patrimonialism, modern and traditionalist: a paradigm for interdisciplinary research on rulership and legitimacy
Description / Table of Contents:
Typology of rulership and legitimacy in generalPatrimonialism: Residual major type with its own subtypology; Patrimonialism and societal monism; Patrimonialism: two subtypes; Scientific and intellectual clues in Weber's opus on modernity and patrimonialism; Hobbes-Locke controversy and its impact; 'Beatitudes' of technological and economic growth; Patrimonialist mythology; Past and present apologetics for 'enlightened despotism'; Modern and traditionalist patrimonialism compared; From patriarchal to patrimonialist rulership; Patrimonialist ruler's bureaucracy: universal servant nobility
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Heteronomy and heterocephalyAbsence of ownership; Dependency and discipline; The convergence of the three interdependent dichotomies within the types of pre-legal/rational and patrimonialist rulerships and legitimacies; Dichotomy 1: Hierocratic church versus patrimonialist church (religion) and clergy; Dichotomy 2: Feudalist versus patrimonialist (political) administration; Dichotomy 3: Free city versus patrimonialist city; Notes; 4. Law and society in Max Weber's sociology; Law and rules in sociology and society; The relationship between law and sociology
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The place of law, norms, and rules in the social orderThe social determinants of legal development; Economic factors; Religious factors; Political factors; Legal factors; Law as craft; Law as a science; Strains of irrationality in modern law; Conclusion; Notes; 5. Max Weber and the causality of freedom; Weber's dilemma; Kant's dilemma; Weber and the causality of freedom; Causal explanation: Two views; The nature and origins of nomological knowledge; Nomological knowledge and causal explanation; Causality and the goals of social science; Idiographic science and the causality of freedom
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Conclusions6. Sociological demystification of the arts and music: Max Weber and beyond; Max Weber and beyond; Part II: Historical-comparative case studies; 7. Confucianism, Maoism, and Max Weber; Confucianism; Transcendence; Prophecy; Morality; Rationality; Maoism; Transcendence; Prophecy; Morality; Rationality; Conclusion; 8. Weber and sultanism in the light of historical data; Notes; 9. Patrimonialism in China and the Islamic world; Introduction; Patrimonialism in China; Modern Maoism and traditionalist Confucianism; Celestial mandate and celestial harmony
Description / Table of Contents:
Western misinterpretations of celestial harmony and celestial mandate
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