ISBN:
9780415103879
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (283 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Max Weber: From History to Modernity
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Sociology
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Weber, Max ; 1864-1920
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This authoritative collection of essays examines Weber's contribution to the contemporary debate about modernity and postmodernity
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface Page; Introduction; Max Weber and the Panic Culture of Postmodernism; Max Weber's Historical Sociology: a Bibliographical Essay; Religion and Tradition; Islam, Capitalism and the Weber Theses; Origins and Traditions in Islam and Christianity; State, Science and Economy in Traditional Societies: Some Problems in Weberian Sociology of Science; Religion and State-Formation; Rational Bodies; The Rationalization of the Body: Reflections on Modernity and Discipline; The Body Politic: The Secularization of Sovereign Bodies; Modernization and Capitalism
Description / Table of Contents:
Simmel, Rationalization and the Sociology of MoneyNietzsche, Weber and the Devaluation of Politics: The Problem of State Legitimacy; Conclusion; Sociology and the Science of 'Man'; References; Name index; Subject index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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