Max Weber Rationality and Modernity 1st Edition by Sam Whimster, Scott Lash 9780415402156 0415402158
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ISBN 10: 0415402158
ISBN 13: 9780415402156
Author: Sam Whimster, Scott Lash
This book brings together leading figures in history, sociology, political science, feminism and critical theory to interpret, evaluate, criticize and update Weber’s legacy. In a collection of specially commissioned pieces and translated articles the Weberian scholarship recognizes Max Weber as the figure central to contemporary debates on the need for societal rationality, the limits of reason and the place of culture and conduct in the supposedly post-religious age. In Part 1, Wolfgang Mommsen, Wilhelm Hennis, Guenther Roth and Wolfgang Schluchter provide a full and varied account of the theme of rationalization in the world civilizations. In Part 2 Pierre Bourdieu and Barry Hindess critically examine Weber’s social action model, and Johannes Weiss and Martin Albrow address the putative ‘crisis’ of Western rationality. In Part 3 Jeffrey Alexander, Ralph Schroeder, Bryan Turner, Roslyn Bologh and Sam Whimster scrutinize Weber’s understanding of modernity with its characteristic plurality of ‘gods and demons’; they focus on its implications for individuality and personality, the body and sexuality, feminism and aesthetic modernism. Part 4 turns to politics, law and the state in the contemporary world: Colin Gordon on liberalism, Luciano Cavalli on charismatic politics, Stephen Turner and Regis Factor on decisionism and power and Scott Lash on modernism, substantice rationality and law. This book was first published in 1987
Table of contents:
Part One: The Processes of Rationalization
Chapter 1: Personal Conduct and Societal Change Towards a Reconstruction of Max Weber’s Concept of History
Chapter 2: Personality and Life Orders: Max Weber’s Theme
Chapter 3: Rationalization in Max Weber’s Developmental History
Chapter 4: Weber’s Sociology of Rationalism and Typology of Religious Rejections of the World
Part Two: Rationalization and the Limits of Rational Action
Chapter 5: Legitimation and Structured Interests in Weber’s Sociology of Religion
Chapter 6: Rationality and the Characterization of Modern Society
Chapter 7: On the Irreversibility of Western Rationalization and Max Weber’s Alleged Fatalism
Chapter 8: The Application of the Weberian Concept of Rationalization to Contemporary Conditions
Part Three: Problems of Modernity
Chapter 9: The Dialectic of Individuation and Domination: Weber’s Rationalization Theory and Beyond
Chapter 10: Nietzsche and Weber: Two ‘Prophets’ of the Modern World
Chapter 11: The Rationalization of the Body: Reflections on Modernity and Discipline
Chapter 12: Max Weber on Erotic Love: a Feminist Inquiry
Chapter 13: The Secular Ethic and the Culture of Modernism
Part Four: Reason and the Political Order
Chapter 14: The Soul of the Citizen: Max Weber and Michel Foucault on Rationality and Government
Chapter 15: Charisma and Twentieth-Century Politics
Chapter 16: Decisionism and Politics: Weber as Constitutional Theorist
Chapter 17: Modernity or Modernism? Weber and Contemporary Social Theory
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