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Acknowledgements | |
Of -Sect Man-: The Modern Self and Civil Society in Max Weber | |
Agency, citizenship and civil society | |
Reading Weber: between politics and science | |
In search of the Protestant ethic thesis | |
Outline of the argument | |
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Individualism | |
Introduction: -the last of our heroisms- | |
-A rationalization toward an irrational conduct of life- | |
Calling: sanctification and regimentation of everyday life | |
Predestination: objectification of the world and disempowerment of the self | |
Empowering the individual agency: self-mastery and discipline | |
Conclusion: value, rationality and freedom | |
The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Civil Society | |
Introduction: sociability of the Puritan Berufsmensch | |
Gemeinschaft, Gesellschaft and Amerikanismus | |
Modes of sociability: America versus Europe | |
Sect contra church: particularism and voluntarism | |
Secularization of charisma: from sect to status group and bureaucracy | |
Conclusion: The public and the private | |
Politics, Science, Ethics | |
Introduction: G+ tterd+ñmmerung | |
Disenchantment and reenchantment | |
Conviction, responsibility and decision | |
Practice of the self I: realpolitik | |
Practice of the self II: ideal type | |
Conclusion: modernity, conscience and duty | |
Liberalism, Nationalism and Civil Society | |
Introduction: liberalism and nationalism | |
National identities, nation-states and the political | |
Nationalism, citizenship and personality | |
Politics of the classes: refeudalization and embourgeoisement | |
Politics of checks and balances: corporatism and parliamentarianism | |
Conclusion: -the school of men- | |
Max Weber-s Politics of Civil Society | |
Statecraft and soulcraft in Max Weber | |
Purpose, contestation and the political | |
Bowling alone | |
References | |
Index | |
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