Max Weber, Rationality and Modernity

Introduction, Sam Whimster and Scott Lash Part One: the Processes of Rationalization 1. Personal conduct and societal change, Wolfgang Mommsen 2. Personality and life orders: Max Weber's theme, Wilhelm Hennis 3. Rationalization in Max Weber's Developmental History, Guenther Roth 4. Weber's sociology of rationalism and typology of religious rejections of the world, Wolfgang Schlucter Part Two: Rationalization and the Limits of Rational Action 5. Legitimation and structured interests in Weber's Sociology of Religion, Pierre Bourdieu 6. Rationality and the characterization of modern society, Barry Hindess 7. On the irreversability of Western rationalization and Max Weber's alleged fatalism, Johannes Weiss 8. the application of the Weberian concept of rationalization to contemporary conditions, Martin Albrow Part Three: Problems of Modernity 9. the dialectic of individuation and domination: Weber's rationalization theory and beyond, Jeffrey C. Alexander 10. Nietzsche and Weber: Two 'prophets' of the modern world, Ralph Schroeder 11. the Rationalization of the body: Reflections on modernity and discipline, Bryan S. Turner 12. Max Weber on erotic love: A feminist Inquiry, Roslyn Wallach Bologh 13. the secular ethic and the culture of modernism, Sam Whimster Part Four: Reason and Political Order 14. the soul of the citizen: Max Weber and Michel Foucault on rationality of government, Colin Gordon 15. Charisma and twentieth-century politics, Luciano Cavalli 16. Decisionism and politics: Weber as constitutional theorist, Stephen Turner and Regis Factor 17. Modernity or modernism? Weber and contemporary social theory, Scott Lash