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9780754673408

Max Weber Matters: Interweaving Past and Present

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  • ISBN13:

    9780754673408

  • ISBN10:

    0754673405

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2016-03-31
  • Publisher: Routledge

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This volume clearly communicates the exciting manner in which Max Weber's texts and ideas continue to matter to sociology and to the analysis of historical and contemporary societies. That the influence of Weber is of great significance to the history of social science and to appreciating the theoretical work of others is also strikingly conveyed. In addition to constituting a valuable record of the background to the Heidelberg Centenary Weber conference in 1964 and the planning of the full English translation of Economy and Society, it also explores the centrality of the interweaving of past and present not only in Weber's own sociology but also in the hermeneutic task of reading and applying Weber today. Insightful and timely, this book is comprised of topical and innovative work, which discusses with Weber very much in mind a range of historical and contemporary questions, including: the controversy surrounding the Da Vinci code, the understanding of the legitimation of the police in 19th century London and New York, the charismatic role of martyrs, nuclear weapons strategy in a post-cold-war age, the affinity between Hindu belief systems and disenchanted computer science, the significance of Weber's ideal typical procedures for Adorno and Merleau Ponty, the need to extend Weberian sociology to include analysis of meaning in texts and the similarity and differences between Weber and thinkers as diverse as Veblen, Habermas and Leo Strauss.With its focus on both the practical application of Weber's thought to contemporary cultural and political questions, as well as his philosophical legacy, Max Weber Matters will be of interest to scholars across a range of disciplines, including historians, sociologists, political scientists and social theorists.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: interweaving past and present
Setting the Scene
Why hermeneutics, the text(s) and the biography of the work matter in Max Weber studies
Reminiscences of the Weber centenary 1964, its prehistory and aftermath: lessons in academic politics
Philosophical Dialogues
Philosophy beyond the bounds of reason: the influence of Max Weber on the development of Karl Jasper's Existenzphilosophie, 1909-1932
Merleau-Ponty's use of the Weberian example: avoiding totalizing meanings in history
Adorno's paradox Weber's constructionism: scrutinizing theory and method
The elusiveness of meaning: from Max Weber to Jürgem Habermas
Theorizing Rationality and Processes of Rationalization
Blind spot? Weber's concept of expertise and the perplexing case of China
Economic rationalization, money and measures: a Weberian perspective
Applied science and rationalized Hinduism - an elective affinity?
Rationality and nuclear weapons: Weber's pertinence in the post-annihilatory age
The Culture of Capitalism: Past and Present
The acquisitive machine
Max Weber, Thordstein Veblen, and the culture of consumptive individualism
Vergesellschaftung and Berufsmenschentum: Max Weber on religion and rationalism in the Middle Ages
Beyond the Protestant ethic: culture, subjectivity and instrumental labor
Studies in the Sociology of Legitimacy
The leadership of the dead: notes towards a Weberian analysis of charisma in narratives of martyrdom
The Da Vinci Code: ecclesial governance and Max Weber's ideal types of authority
Weber's rational-legal model of legitimation and the police in London and New York City, 1830-1870
Consciousness, History, Relativism and Interweaving of Past and Present
The perpetual and tight interweaving of past and present in Max Weber's sociology
Temporality and the value of facts in Max Weber's critical social science
Weber and the Straussian charge of relativism
Index
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Revealing the extent to which scholars are seeking to understand both current and historical issues through the sociology of Max Weber, this book reaffirms and extends the enduring relevance of Weber's thought to contemporary cultural and political questions.

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