Max Weber's politics of civil society / Sung Ho Kim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim, Sung Ho, 1966 November 9- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Weber, Max, 1864-1920.

Weber, Max.

Civil society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 214 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Part I. Of 'Sect Man': The Modern Self and Civil Society in Max Weber

Part II The Protesant Ethic and the spirit of individualism

Part III. The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Civil Society

Part IV. Politics, Science, Ethics

Part V. liberalism, . nationalism, and civil society

Part VI. Max Weber's politics of civil society.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-209) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-14544-9

1-280-51601-1

0-511-21518-5

0-511-21697-1

0-511-21160-0

0-511-32729-3

0-511-49028-3

0-511-21337-9

OCLC:

171139090