Max Weber

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ISBN: 9780754624721 | 0754624722
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 8/28/2006

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This volume contains key writings, mainly recent, that define the current debate concerning our understanding of the nature of Max Weber's social and political thought. Topics covered include the interpretation of his central concepts; problems of method; meaning and value; liberalism, nationalism and democracy; and the fate of politics in a disenchanted world. Supplemented by a detailed and thoughtful introduction, this collection will be essential for libraries in social sciences and all scholars and students of Weber.

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Introduction: Max Weber
Central Themes
The problem of thematic unity in the work of Max Weber
Max Weber's 'Central Question'
Leo Strauss's confrontation with Max Weber: a search for genuine social science
Industrialization and capitalism
Max Weber. Legitimation, method, and the politics of theory. Problems of Method
The problem of reference in Max Weber's theory of causal explanation
Weber on action
Max Weber's idea of 'Puritanism': a case study in the empirical construction of the protestant ethic
Weber's The Protestant Ethic as hypothetical narrative of original accumulation
The meaning of 'Wertfreiheit'
On the background and motives of Max Weber's 'Postulate'
Meaning and Value
Methodological ambivalence: the case of Max Weber
Bad conscience for a Nietzschean age: Weber's calling for science
What have we to do with morals? Nietzsche and Weber on history and ethics
Max Weber's reconceptualization of freedom
Max Weber on value rationality and value spheres
The incongruity between destiny and merit: Max Weber on meaningful existence and modernity
Liberalism, Nationalism, and Democracy
Max Weber's politics and political education
Doing without liberalism: Weber's regime politics
The antinomian structure of Max Weber's political thought
Max Weber's liberalism for a Nietzschean world
Max Weber and the liberal political tradition
Was Max Weber a 'Nationalist'? A study in the rhetoric of conceptual change
Max Weber's liberal nationalism
Politics in Disenchanted World: Dana R. Villa (1999)
Max Weber: integrity, disenchantment, and the illusions of politics
The political logic of economics and the economic logic of modernity in Max Weber
Max Weber and the rights of citizens
Max Weber's missing definition of 'Political Action' in his 'Basic Sociological Concepts': simultaneously a commentary on some aspects
Index
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