ISBN:
0191006955
,
9780191006951
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Wolff, Hans-Jürgen Max Weber and ›The Protestant Ethic‹. Twin Histories 2016
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Max Weber and 'The Protestant ethic'. Twin histories
DDC:
306.6
Keywords:
Weber, Max
;
Capitalism Social aspects
;
Protestant work ethic
;
Capitalism Religious aspects
;
Protestant churches
Abstract:
This book presents an entirely new portrait of Max Weber, one of the most prestigious social theorists in recent history, using his most famous work, The Protestant ethic and the "Spirit" of capitalism, as its central point of reference. It offers an intellectual biography of Weber framed along historical lines -- something which has never been done before. It re-evaluates The Protestant ethic -- a text surprisingly neglected by scholars - supplying a missing intellectual and chronological centre to Weber's life and work. Peter Ghosh suggests that The Protestant ethic is the link which unites the earlier (pre-1900) and later (post-1910) phases of his career. He offers a series of fresh perspectives on Weber's thought in various areas - charisma, capitalism, law, politics, rationality, bourgeois life, and (not least) Weber's unusual religious thinking, which was 'remote from God' yet based on close dialogue with Christian theology. This approach produces a convincing view of Max Weber as a whole; while previously the sheer breadth of his intellectual interests has caused him to be read in a fragmentary way according to a series of specialized viewpoints, this volume seeks to put him back together again as a real individual
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover ""; ""Max Weber and The Protestant Ethic: Twin Histories""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""Textual Symbols and Conventions""; ""Four German Words""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Part I The Genesis of the Protestant Ethic-and the History of Max Weber, c.1884-1905""; ""1 A Problem""; ""2 A Situation Report c.1897""; ""3 A Narrative 1898-1905""; ""I""; ""II""; ""III""; ""4 Capitalism""; ""5 Politics and Nationality""; ""6 Religion""; ""7 Rationality and Law""; ""APPENDIX: THE SOCIOLOGY OF LAW ""; ""8 A Whole Text?""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Part II The Second History of the Protestant Ethic-and of Max Weber, 1905-1920""""Proem""; ""1 1905-1908: Going into Hibernation""; ""I. A NARRATIVE ""; ""II. CAPITALISM AND RELIGION , 1907-1908 ""; ""2 The ""Anti-Critical"" Essays""; ""3 Recalled to Life: From the 'Protestant Ethic' to 'Economy and Society' and the World Religions""; ""APPENDIX. THE DATING OF THE `INTRODUCTIONÂ?, `SUMMARY. CONFUCIANISM AND PURITANISMÂ?, AND `ZWISCHENBETRACHTUNGÂ? WITHIN THE `ECONOMIC ETHICS OF THE WORLD RELIGIONS' ""; ""4 War and Peace: 1914-1920""; ""5 Religiosity and Modernity (I)""
Description / Table of Contents:
""I. RELIGION, POLITICS, WISSENSCHAFT """"II. THE QUESTION OF CONTINUITY ""; ""III. AN ARGUMENT FROM QUANTITY ""; ""IV. TWO ""SIDES""""; ""V. AN EXPANSION OF HORIZONS? ""; ""6 Religiosity and Modernity (II)""; ""I. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS; ASCETICISM AND MYSTICISM ""; ""II. ANTI-MAGIC ""; ""III. ETHICAL AND SALVATION RELIGIONS-AND BEYOND ""; ""IV. THE PROBLEM OF MEANING ""; ""APPENDIX (SEE NN. 93, 131). WEBER, TOLSTOY AND THE QUESTION OF `MEANING.� ""; ""7 Capitalism and Herrschaft""; ""I. MORE PROBLEMS WITH CAPITALISM ""; ""II. CHARISMA ""
Description / Table of Contents:
""III. CAPITALISM, LAW AND BUREAUCRACY, c.1910-1914""""IV. THE IMPACT OF WAR""; ""V. A CONCLUSION""; ""8 From the Sects to `The City�: Max Weber `the fairly pure bourgeois�""; ""I. THE LEGACY OF 1648""; ""II. THE SECTARIAN IDEA, 1884-1905""; ""III. �THE PROTESTANT SECTS�, 1907""; ""IV. SECTS AND VIRTUOSI""; ""V. THE BOURGEOIS IDEA AND THE CITY""; ""APPENDIX: ON THE DATING AND STATUS OF �THE CITY�""; ""Envoi: Who was Max Weber?""; ""Index""
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