Max Weber in politics and social thought : from charisma to canonization / Joshua Derman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Derman, Joshua, 1977- author.

Series:

Ideas in context ; 102.

Ideas in context ; 102

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Weber, Max, 1864-1920--Political and social views.

Weber, Max.

Weber, Max, 1864-1920--Influence.

Political science--Philosophy--History--20th century.

Political science.

Political science--United States--Philosophy--History--20th century.

Political science--Germany--Philosophy--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 271 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Max Weber in Politics & Social Thought

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Max Weber is widely regarded as one of the foundational thinkers of the twentieth century. But how did this reclusive German scholar manage to leave such an indelible mark on modern political and social thought? Max Weber in Politics and Social Thought is the first comprehensive account of Weber's wide-ranging impact on both German and American intellectuals. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Joshua Derman illuminates what Weber meant to contemporaries in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany and analyzes why they reached for his concepts to articulate such widely divergent understandings of modern life. The book also accounts for the transformations that Weber's concepts underwent at the hands of émigré and American scholars, and in doing so, elucidates one of the major intellectual movements of the mid-twentieth century: the transatlantic migration of German thought.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Max Weber and his circles

2. Value freedom and polytheism

3. The meaning of modern capitalism

4. Skepticism and faith

5. Max Weber's sociologies

6. Charismatic rulership

Conclusion.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-88928-1

1-139-57969-X

1-139-57359-4

1-139-57112-5

1-139-57287-3

1-139-56931-7

1-139-19889-0

1-283-71632-1

1-139-57021-8

OCLC:

813957065