ISBN:
9781137377135
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (281 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Intellectual work and the spirit of capitalism : Weber's calling
DDC:
306.3
Keywords:
Weber, Max
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Capitalism Philosophy
;
Capitalism Social aspects
;
Political theory
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book treats three lectures that Weber gave in the last decade of his career as a podium or prism from which to approach his best-known treatises and essays on the rise of occidental capitalism. His remarks on 'Technology and Culture' (1910) and his famous 'Science as a Vocation' (1917) and 'Politics as a Vocation' (1919 lectures) offer a standpoint for assessing the contemporary relevance of Weber''s notion of ''interpretive understanding'', including the place of ideal types and value-judgments in sociology, as well as the use of rhetorical techniques and literary methods in scholarly di
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""Preamble and Acknowledgements""; ""Introductory Remarks: Sociological Allegory in the Age of Weber""; ""Re: Marx on capitalism and the limits of occidentalism""; ""An untimely portrait of Weber in the sociological cineplex""; ""Part I: Faust�s Study""; ""1 Polemical Arts of Speaking Sociologically: Weber�s Lectern""; ""�Fellow Students!�""; ""The trials of Homo clausus (Goethe)""; ""2 Casuistic Disciplines of Capitalist Science: Weber�s Bifocals""; ""The case of capitalist modernity""; ""The spirit of Homo economicus (Franklin)""
Description / Table of Contents:
""3 Narrative Conventions of Political Discourse: Weber�s Prism""""The charisma of reason as vanishing mediator""; ""The calling of Homo politicus (Luther)""; ""Part II: Tolstoy�s Keynote""; ""4 The Cosmopolitan Ethics of War and Peace: Weber�s Machine""; ""The citizen and the Signori (Florentine Histories)""; ""Arjuna and Krishna (Bhagavadgita)""; ""Jesus and the Grand Inquisitor (The Brothers Karamazov)""; ""5 Resurrecting Charisma: Weber�s Pendulum""; ""Siegmund�s lament (The Valkyries)""; ""The nightwatchman�s call (Isaiah)""; ""Philomel�s greeting (The Sonnets)""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Interim Reflections: Intellectual Work and the Spirit of Capitalism""""Thinker on stage""; ""And yet!""; ""The entrepreneurial self""; ""Appendix A � Sombart versus Weber on �Technology and Culture� (1910�11)""; ""Appendix B � The Free Students Federation and �Intellectual Work as a Vocation� (1917�19)""; ""Appendix C � Lecture notes for �Politics as a Vocation� (1919)""; ""Appendix D � Outline of the interpretive sciences of action: Economy and Society (1910�20)""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Appendix E � Schema for the historical-comparative sociology of world culture: The Economic Ethics of the World Religions (1904�20)""""Bibliography""; ""Subject Index""
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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