The Political Thought Of Max Weber

Author : Terry Maley
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442695955

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Democracy & the Political in Max Weber's Thought by Terry Maley Pdf

Max Weber is best known as one of the founders of modern sociology and the author of the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, but he also made important contributions to modern political and democratic theory. In Democracy and the Political in Max Weber's Thought, Terry Maley explores, through a detailed analysis of Weber's writings, the intersection of recent work on Weber and on democratic theory, bridging the gap between these two rapidly expanding areas of scholarship. Maley critically examines how Weber's realist 'model' of democracy defines and constrains the possibilities for democratic agency in modern liberal-democracies. Maley also looks at how ideas of historical time and memory are constructed in his writings on religion, bureaucracy, and the social sciences. Democracy and the Political in Max Weber's Thought is both an accessible introduction to Weber's political thought and a spirited defense of its continued relevance to debates on democracy.

Author : Pedro T. Magalhães
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351654005

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The Legitimacy of Modern Democracy by Pedro T. Magalhães Pdf

By re-examining the political thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen, this book offers a reflection on the nature of modern democracy and the question of its legitimacy. Pedro T. Magalhães shows that present-day elitist, populist and pluralist accounts of democracy owe, in diverse and often complicated ways, an intellectual debt to the interwar era, German-speaking, scholarly and political controversies on the problem(s) of modern democracy. A discussion of Weber’s ambivalent diagnosis of modernity and his elitist views on democracy, as they were elaborated especially in the 1910s, sets the groundwork for the study. Against that backdrop, Schmitt’s interwar political thought is interpreted as a form of neo-authoritarian populism, whereas Kelsen evinces robust, though not entirely unproblematic, pluralist consequences. In the conclusion, the author draws on Claude Lefort’s concept of indeterminacy to sketch a potentially more fruitful way than can be gleaned from the interwar German discussions of conceiving the nexus between the elitist, populist and pluralist faces of modern democracy. The Legitimacy of Modern Democracy will be of interest to political theorists, political philosophers, intellectual historians, theoretically oriented political scientists, and legal scholars working in the subfields of constitutional law and legal theory. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315157566, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745672137

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Politics and Sociology in the Thought of Max Weber by Anthony Giddens Pdf

This book provides an interpretation of one of the key aspects of Max Weber’s work: the relationship between his political and sociological writings. Weber’s sociological studies have often been treated as if they were completely separate from his political attitudes and interests, and in general his political writings have remained less well-known than his sociological work. The book contains three main sections. The first of these analyses the principal concerns underlying Weber’s political assessment of the prospective development of post-Bismarckian Germany. The second examines some of the way in which these views channelled his interests in sociology and influences his studies of capitalism, authority and religion. Finally, the third main section ‘reverses’ this perspective, showing how his conceptions of sociology and social philosophy in turn influenced the evolution of his assessment of German politics.

Author : Max Weber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1994-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0521397197

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Weber: Political Writings by Max Weber Pdf

Max Weber (1864-1920), generally known as a founder of modern social science, was concerned with political affairs throughout his life. The texts in this edition span his career and include his early inaugural lecture The Nation State and Economic Policy, Suffrage and Democracy in Germany, Parliament and Government in Germany under a New Political Order, Socialism, The Profession and Vocation of Politics, and an excerpt from his essay The Situation of Constitutional Democracy in Russia, as well as other shorter writings. Together they illustrate the development of his thinking on the fate of Germany and the nature of politics in the modern western state in an age of cultural 'disenchantment'. The introduction discusses the central themes of Weber's political thought, and a chronology, notes and an annotated bibliography place him in his political and intellectual context.

Author : Ilse Dronberger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B4953877

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The Political Thought of Max Weber by Ilse Dronberger Pdf

Author : Wolfgang J. Mommsen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1992-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0226534006

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The Political and Social Theory of Max Weber by Wolfgang J. Mommsen Pdf

Preface Acknowledgements Bibliographical Note and Abbreviations Part I - Politics and Social Theory 1. Politics and Scholarship: The Two Icons in Max Weber's Life 2. The Antinomical Structure of Max Weber's Political Thought 3. Max Weber's Theory of Legitimacy Today Part II - Max Weber on Socialism and Political Radicalism 4. Capitalism and Socialism: Weber's Dialogue with Marx 5. Joining the Underdogs? Weber's Critique of the Social Democrats in Wilhelmine Germany 6. Roberto Michels and Max Weber: Moral Conviction versus the Politics of Responsibility Part III - The Development of Max Weber's Theoretical Ideas 7. Max Weber on Bureaucracy and Bureaucratization: Threat to Liberty and Instrument of Creative Action 8. Ideal Type and Pure Type: Two Variants of Max Weber's Ideal-typical Method 9. Rationalization and Myth in Weber's Thought 10. The Two Dimensions of Social Change in Max Weber's Sociological Theory Part IV - The Rediscovery of Max Weber 11. Max Weber in Modern Social Thought Notes Index.

Author : David Beetham
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745676623

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Max Weber and the Theory of Modern Politics by David Beetham Pdf

Max Weber's writings on the politics of Wilhelmine in Germany and the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917 are much less well known than his contributions to historical and theoretical sociology, yet they are essential to any overall assessment of his thought. Drawing on these writings, still mostly untranslated, David Beetham offers the most comprehensive account available in English of Weber's political theory. The book explores Weber's central concern with the prospects for liberal Parliamentarism in authoritarian societies and in an age of mass politics and bureaucratic organization, and shows how this concern led him to a revision of democratic theory which is still influential. It argues that Weber's analyzis of the class basis of contemporary politics necessitate a modification in some of the accepted interpretations of his sociology of modern capitalism. A special feature of the book is its full treatment of the extensive German literature on Weber's political thought. This second edition contains a substantial new critical introduction and an expanded bibliography. Otherwise the text of the widely acclaimed first edition remains unaltered. This is a book which adds an essential dimension to the understanding of Max Weber for students of sociology and politics who have previously only approached his work through his sociological writings.

Author : Wolfgang J. Mommsen
Publisher : Polity
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 074561132X

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The Political and Social Theory of Max Weber by Wolfgang J. Mommsen Pdf

Wolfgang J. Mommsen is one of the foremost Weberian scholars writing today. In this volume, a sequel to his monumental study Max Weber and German Politics , he provides succinct and incisive statements on current developments in the analysis of Weber's work. The book concentrates upon Weber's engagement with political issues and their influence over his more theoretical concepts. Mommsen offers a critical analysis of Weber's notion of democracy and provides a thorough assessment of Weber's views of socialism against the backcloth of German Social Democracy.

Author : Ilse Dronberger
Publisher : Irvington Pub
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1971-01-01
Category : Germany
ISBN : 0891973494

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Political Thought of Max Weber by Ilse Dronberger Pdf

Author : Joshua Derman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107025882

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Max Weber in Politics and Social Thought by Joshua Derman Pdf

A comprehensive account of the wide-ranging impact of Max Weber's ideas on German and American intellectuals in the twentieth century.

Author : Max Weber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1994-06-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521393124

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Weber: Political Writings by Max Weber Pdf

Max Weber (1864-1920), generally known as a founder of modern social science, was concerned with political affairs throughout his life. The texts in this edition span his career and illustrate the development of his political thinking on the fate of Germany and the nature of politics in the modern Western state in an age of cultural "disenchantment." The introduction discusses the central themes of Weber's political thought, and a chronology, notes and an annotated bibliography place him in his political and cultural context.

Author : Peter Breiner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801431476

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Max Weber & Democratic Politics by Peter Breiner Pdf

Breiner demonstrates the tension between the subjective and objective dimensions of Weber's logic of rationality, and describes how Weber exploits this tension in judging the feasibility of social and political forms such as socialism, radical democracy, capitalism, and the nation.

Author : Sung Ho Kim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139453561

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Max Weber's Politics of Civil Society by Sung Ho Kim Pdf

This book is an in-depth interpretation of Max Weber as a political theorist of civil society. On the one hand, it reads Weber's ideas from the perspective of modern political thought, rather than the modern social sciences; on the other, it offers a liberal assessment of this complex political thinker without attempting to apologize for his shortcomings. Through an alternative reading of Weber's religious, epistemological and political writings, the book shows Weber's concern with public citizenship in a modern mass democracy and civil society as its cultivating ground. Kim argues Weber's political thought, thus recast, was deeply informed by Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche and other German political thinkers and also reveals an affinity to the liberal-republican tradition best represented by Mill and Tocqueville. Kim has effectively resuscitated Weber as a political thinker for our time in which civic virtues and civil society have once again become one of the dominant issues.

Author : Sara R. Farris
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004254091

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Max Weber’s Theory of Personality by Sara R. Farris Pdf

Max Weber's writings in The Sociology of Religion are today acknowledged as a classic of the social sciences in the twentieth century. They are key texts for understanding Weber’s central sociological concepts concerning Western and Eastern ‘civilisations’. This book argues that the concept and problematic of personality plays a pivotal role within these works. Providing a detailed reconstruction of this concept within Weber’s systematic studies of world religions as well as throughout his methodological and political writings, this book shows its complex development within three strictly related problematics associated with Weber’s influential comparative historical sociology and theory of social action – individuation, politics and orientalism. Together they shape and constitute what is distinctive in Max Weber’s theory of personality.

Author : Tom McClean,Jason Xidias,William Brett
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351352703

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An Analysis of Max Weber's 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.