Max Weber : from history to modernity / Bryan S. Turner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turner, Bryan S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Weber, Max, 1864-1920.

Weber, Max.

Sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This wide-ranging and assured book, written by one of the leading Weber scholars in the English-speaking world, shows us the many sides of Max Weber. The book provides an authoritative guide to the current burning issues in social theory, religion, rationalization, the body, modernization and capitalism. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in Weber's claim that the aim of sociology must be to explain what is distinctive about the times in which we live.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface Page; Introduction; Max Weber and the Panic Culture of Postmodernism; Max Weber's Historical Sociology: a Bibliographical Essay; Religion and Tradition; Islam, Capitalism and the Weber Theses; Origins and Traditions in Islam and Christianity; State, Science and Economy in Traditional Societies: Some Problems in Weberian Sociology of Science; Religion and State-Formation; Rational Bodies; The Rationalization of the Body: Reflections on Modernity and Discipline; The Body Politic: The Secularization of Sovereign Bodies; Modernization and Capitalism

Simmel, Rationalization and the Sociology of Money Nietzsche, Weber and the Devaluation of Politics: The Problem of State Legitimacy; Conclusion; Sociology and the Science of 'Man'; References; Name index; Subject index

Notes:

Reprint. First published 1992.

Includes bibliography and indexes.

ISBN:

1-134-84955-9

1-134-84956-7

1-280-32584-4

9786610325849

0-203-16384-2

9780203163849

OCLC:

62593921