Politics As A Vocation

Author : Max 1864-1920 Weber
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 50 pages
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Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014408709

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Politics As a Vocation by Max 1864-1920 Weber Pdf

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Author : Max Weber
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781603840729

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The Vocation Lectures by Max Weber Pdf

Originally published separately, Weber's Science as a Vocation and Politics as a Vocation stand as the classic formulations of his positions on two related subjects that go to the heart of his thought: the nature and status of science and its claims to authority; and the nature and status of political claims and the ultimate justification for such claims. Together in this volume, these newly translated lectures offer an ideal point of entry into Weber's central project: understanding how, as Weber put it, "in the West alone there have appeared cultural manifestations [that seem to] go in the direction of universal significance and validity.

Author : Tom McClean,Jason Xidias,William Brett
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351350914

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Politics as a Vocation by Tom McClean,Jason Xidias,William Brett Pdf

German sociologist Max Weber’s 1919 lecture Politics as a Vocation is widely regarded as a masterpiece of political theory and sociology. Its central strength lies in Weber’s deployment of masterful interpretative skills to power his discussion of modern politics. Interpretation involves understanding both the meaning of evidence and the meaning of terms – questioning definitions, clarifying terms and processes, and supplying good, clear definitions of the author’s own. As a sociologist accustomed to working with historical evidence, Weber based his own work on precisely these skills, solidly backed up by analytical acuity. Politics as a Vocation, written in a Germany shocked by its crippling defeat in World War I, saw Weber turn his eye to an examination of how the modern nation state emerged, and the different ways in which it can be run – interpreting and defining the different types of rule that are possible. It is testament to Weber’s interpretative skills that Politics is famous above all in sociological circles for its clear definition of a state as an institution that claims “the monopoly of legitimate physical violence” in a given territory.

Author : Max Weber
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781681373904

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Charisma and Disenchantment: The Vocation Lectures by Max Weber Pdf

A new translation of two celebrated lectures on politics, academia, and the disenchantment of the world. The German sociologist Max Weber is one of the most venturesome, stimulating, and influential theorists of the modern condition. Among his most significant works are the so-called vocation lectures, published shortly after the end of World War I and delivered at the invitation of a group of student activists. The question the students asked Weber to address was simple and haunting: In a modern world characterized by the division of labor, economic expansion, and unrelenting change, was it still possible to consider an academic or political career as a genuine calling? In response Weber offered his famous diagnosis of “the disenchantment of the world,” along with a challenging account of the place of morality in the classroom and in research. In his second lecture he introduced the notion of political charisma, assigning it a central role in the modern state, even as he recognized that politics is more than anything “a slow and difficult drilling of holes into hard boards.” Damion Searls’s new translation brings out the power and nuance of these celebrated lectures. Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon’s introduction describes their historical and biographical background, reception, and influence. Weber’s effort to rethink the idea of a public calling at the start of the tumultuous twentieth century is revealed to be as timely and stirring as ever.

Author : Max Weber
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Academic freedom
ISBN : 9780875865492

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Max Weber's Complete Writings on Academic and Political Vocations by Max Weber Pdf

Annotation This is the first edition in any language of all of Max Weber's writings on academic and political vocations. The translation is new and liberally annotated, including a look at Weber's personality and what it was that made him such a phenomenon. Max Weber made many significant interpretations of both academic and political vocations in his two lectures on Science as a Vocation (Wissenschaft als Beruf, 1917) and Politics as a Vocation (Politik als Beruf) 1919), as well as in a series of newspaper articles including those written between 1908 and 1920. Since these writings are of more than historical interest, there was a need to bring them all together in a single volume. Newly translated and annotated, this collection comprises both lectures plus 32 articles which Weber wrote on academia. Most of these have not been translated before. In the Introduction, Prof. John Dreijmanis relates the academic and political vocations to each other conceptually, showing that there is considerable overlap and some convergence: the need for passion, an inward calling, as well as career insecurity both vocations. Dreijmanis then examines the person of Weber and provides a new view of him, in part through the lens of Carl C. Jung's theory of psychological types as further developed by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). As an extravert with a powerful thinking function and intellect, he was driven to take an interest in events outside himself and to speak his mind. Coming after a long line of introverted German philosophers, he was a phenomenon. The new translations, by Gordon C. Wells, are more faithful to Weber's style of expression, and they correct an accumulation of errors of previous translations in the oft-translated essays on Politics and Science. Contains Glossary, Bibliography, Names Index, Subject Index.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137365866

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Weber's Rationalism and Modern Society by Anonim Pdf

Weber's Rationalism and Modern Society rediscovers Max Weber for the twenty-first century. Tony and Dagmar Waters' translation of Weber's works highlights his contributions to the social sciences and politics, credited with highlighting concepts such as "iron cage," "bureaucracy," "bureaucratization," "rationalization," "charisma," and the role of the "work ethic" in ordering modern labor markets. Outlining the relationship between community (Gemeinschaft), and market society (Gesellschaft), the issues of social stratification, power, politics, and modernity resonate just as loudly today as they did for Weber during the early twentieth century.

Author : Franklin I. Gamwell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521547520

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Politics as a Christian Vocation by Franklin I. Gamwell Pdf

This 2004 book argues that Christian faith belongs in politics because both pursue rational forms of thought.

Author : N. Gane
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230502512

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Max Weber and Postmodern Theory by N. Gane Pdf

This book explores the contemporary nature of Max Weber's work by looking in detail at his key concepts of rationalization and disenchantment. Thematic parallels are drawn between Weber's rationalization thesis and the critiques of contemporary culture developed by Jean-Francois Lyotard, Michel Foucault and Jean Baudrillard. It is suggested that these three 'postmoden' thinkers develop and respond to Weber's analysis of modernity by pursuing radical strategies of affirmation and re-enchantment. Examining the work of these three key thinkers in this way casts new light both on postmodern theory and on Weber's sociology of rationalization.

Author : Max Weber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Politics, Practical
ISBN : LCCN:65010507

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Politics as a Vocation by Max Weber Pdf

Author : Randall G. Holcombe
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030486679

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Coordination, Cooperation, and Control by Randall G. Holcombe Pdf

There are two ways people coordinate their actions: through cooperation, exercised by economic power, and through control, exercised by political power. When economic and political power are held by the same people, the result is stagnation; when those who hold economic power are not the same people who hold political power, the result is progress. This book presents the ways in which economic power and political power can be separated, and how they can remain so, by analyzing the nature of power and the differences between economic and political power. The book then discusses the history of economic and political power, including hunter-gatherer societies, agrarian societies, and modern commercial and industrial societies. This background lends insight into why political and economic power were typically held by the same people, and why recently those without political power have been able to acquire economic power. Incentives play a key role in understanding how those two types of power can become separated, and why there is always a tendency for them to recombine. But ideas also play a crucial role, including the influence of the Enlightenment, on the progress that has occurred in the last several hundred years.

Author : John Gray Geer
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801858461

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Politicians and Party Politics by John Gray Geer Pdf

Focusing on politicians as individuals rather than their political parties, thirteen essays from a distinguished group of contributors examine how politicians as party members motivate voters, how they conduct campaigns, and how they behave in government. 36 illustrations.

Author : Sheldon S. Wolin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691183275

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Fugitive Democracy by Sheldon S. Wolin Pdf

An authoritative collection of the most important writings of an influential political thinker Sheldon Wolin was one of the most influential and original political thinkers of the past fifty years. In Fugitive Democracy, the breathtaking range of Wolin’s scholarship, political commitment, and critical acumen are on full display in this authoritative and accessible collection of essays. This book brings together his most important writings, from classic essays to his late radical essays on American democracy such as "Fugitive Democracy," in which he offers a controversial reinterpretation of democracy as an episodic phenomenon distinct from the routinized political management that passes for democracy today. Wolin critically engages a diverse range of political theorists, and grapples with topics such as power, modernization, the sixties, revolutionary politics, and inequality, all the while showcasing enduring commitment to writing civic-minded theoretical commentary on the most pressing political issues of the day. Fugitive Democracy offers enduring insights into many of today’s most pressing political predicaments, and introduces a whole new generation of readers to this provocative figure in contemporary political thought.

Author : Bill Haslam
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781400224432

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Faithful Presence by Bill Haslam Pdf

Two-term governor of Tennessee Bill Haslam reveals how faith--too often divisive and contentious--can be a redemptive and unifying presence in the public square. As a former mayor and governor, Bill Haslam has long been at the center of politics and policy on local, state, and federal levels. And he has consistently been guided by his faith, which influenced his actions on issues ranging from capital punishment to pardons, health care to abortion, welfare to free college tuition. Yet the place of faith in public life has been hotly debated since our nation's founding, and the relationship of church and state remains contentious to this day--and for good reason. Too often, Bill Haslam argues, Christians end up shaping their faith to fit their politics rather than forming their politics to their faith. They seem to forget their calling is to be used by God in service of others rather than to use God to reach their own desires and ends. Faithful Presence calls for a different way. Drawing upon his years of public service, Haslam casts a remarkable vision for the redemptive role of faith in politics while examining some of the most complex issues of our time, including: partisanship in our divided era; the most essential character trait for a public servant; how we cannot escape "legislating morality"; the answer to perpetual outrage; and how to think about the separation of church and state. For Christians ready to be salt and light, as well as for those of a different faith or no faith at all, Faithful Presence argues that faith can be a redemptive, healing presence in the public square--as it must be, if our nation is to flourish.

Author : Tom McClean,Jason Xidias,William Brett
Publisher : Macat Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1912127679

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An Analysis of Max Weber's Politics as a Vocation by Tom McClean,Jason Xidias,William Brett Pdf

'Politics as a Vocation' examines what makes good political leaders and explores the effects of political action on modern societies. On one level, it summarizes the political scholarship of one of the founding fathers of social science. On another, it reflects practical concerns about the future of Germany after its defeat in World War I.

Author : Peter Lassman,Irving Velody,Herminio Martins
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000950649

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Max Weber's 'Science as a Vocation' by Peter Lassman,Irving Velody,Herminio Martins Pdf

Max Weber’s lecture ‘Science as a Vocation’ is a classic of social thought, in which central questions are posed about the nature of social and political thought and action. The lecture has often taken to be a summation of Weber’s thought. It can also be argued that, together with the responses of its admirers and critics, it provides a focus for discussion of the nature of modernity and its political consequences, and of the philosophical and political implications of the social or human sciences. This volume provides a full, clear, revised translation of the lecture, together with translations from the German of key contributions to the lively debate that followed its publication. The book concludes with a substantial essay on the current significance of the lecture, which discusses its relevance to the debates about the nature of science as a cultural phenomenon; the disjunction between science and nature; Weber’s conception of the disenchantment of the world; the division of scientific labour; and the fundamental nature and place of sociology.