Max Weber : politics and the spirit of tragedy
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Max Weber : politics and the spirit of tragedy
Basic Books, c1996
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- : pbk
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Bibliographical references: p. 287-317
Includes index
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: pbk ISBN 9780465007240
Description
Based on extensive, first hand research in Borges native Buenos Aires, including interviews with surviving relatives and friends, this meticulous and evocative biography offers new insights into the life and work of Jorges Luis Borges.. A writer and journalist examines the life and works of one of the best-known South American writers. Impacting post-war fiction and philosophyfrom Garca Mrquez to Fuentes, Updike to Eco, Barth to FoucaultBorges is considered to be one of the founding fathers of an intellectual brand of magical realism. }Jorge Luis Borges is one of the seminal figures in twentieth-century literature. His influence on the art of narrative and on the very way people think about writing has been incalculable. All postwar fiction, from Garca Mrquez to Fuentes, Updike to Barth, Calvino to Eco, bears Borgess imprintin spite of the fact that Borges did not write a single novel.Born at the turn of the century in Argentina, Borges grew up with cosmopolitan parents who fostered his love of literatureand his active imagination.
He spent his early youth in Europe, and though he traveled in literary circles, it was not until he returned to Buenos Aires in the late 1930s that he embarked on a substantial writing career of his own. Ficciones and El Aleph , the collections of short stories on which his reputation is based, were cryptic, playful, and vertiginously imagined. They have become benchmarks of Latin American fiction, paving the way for the Magic Realism that followed. Still, fame was slow to come to Borges, and the stature of his work was not recognized until the 1960s. Blind, living with his motherwho died just ten years before he didand increasingly unpopular in his politics, Borges attracted extraordinary international attention in his later years that lasted until his death in 1986. Borges: A Life is the first biography to be written in English since Borges died, and from it emerges a picture of a complex man who neither courted fame nor acknowledged the literary revolution he set in motion.
Based on firsthand research in Buenos Aires, James Woodalls portrait depicts the Borges the world never saw: the young pamphleteering poet obsessed by Walt Whitman and Argentine slang; the sexually timid intellectual falling disastrously in love just as he was writing his finest prose; the guru of Latin American letters whose sole aim in old age was domestic happiness. Casting new light on the background to the stories and the poetry, James Woodall also looks at Buenos Aires itself, a city in one of the most dramatic periods of its history. At the center of Woodalls depiction are the two grand obsessions of Borgess life: his celibate love of women and his loathing of Argentinas most charismatic dictator, Juan Pern. }
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part One
- 1899-1914: Quiet Days in Palermo
- 1914-1921: Europe, and the Fervour of Reading
- 1921-1930: Poetry and the Pamphleteer
- Part Two
- 1931-1938: Sur, Essays and First Fictions
- 1939-1946: Great Fictions and Pern
- 1946-1955: Rising Fame
- Part Three
- 1955-1964: Borges Global
- 19641968: Love and Marriage
- 1968-1972: New Space with di Giovanni
- 1972-1986: The World with Young Eyes
- Epilogue: Afterlife.
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: cloth ISBN 9780465017508
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Ever since World War II, Max Weber has functioned as a kind of monument to the most conservative and conventional orthodoxies of the social science establishments. John Patrick Diggins uncovers another Weber: one influenced by Nietzsche, one whose deep belief in individualism bound him close to the Emersonian tradition in America, one with a Lincoln-like sense of history as tragedy, and one with a sober sense of the responsibilities of state. Max Weber is a fresh look at the life and work of one of the greatest social and political thinkers of the modern era, and the first book to focus on Weber from an American perspective. Ever since World War II, Max Weber has been regarded as a monument to the most conservative and conventional orthodoxies of the social science establishment. Despite the fact that many of Webers books, foremost among them, Economy and Society and The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, are classics and continue to be read, there has never been a single-volume treatment of Webers life and thought in English.
In reversing this critical neglect, John Patrick Diggins challenges Webers iconic status and in the process uncovers another side of Weber: one influenced by Nietzche, one whose deep belief in individualism bound him close to the Emersonian tradition in America, one with a Lincoln-like sense of history as tragedy, and one with a sober sense of the responsibilities of the state. Diggins brilliantly connects the critical moments of Webers lifeand in particular, his experience of Americato his most enduring ideas on power, capitalism, bureaucracy, and science. He argues that Webers emphasis on such topics as rapaciousness, hypocrisy, and deception makes his work timelier than ever in helping to illuminate the dilemmas of modern American politics.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- The Last Puritan
- Mans Philosophy Is His Biography
- Authority and Its Discontents
- Calvinism and Capitalism: The Irony of Unintended Consequences
- Human Action and Its Meanings
- The Dignity of the Academic Calling
- A Joyous Triumph over Rationality: Women, the Erotic, and the Power of Status Politics
- Subjectivity in Morals, Willfulness in Politics: Germany, America, and World War I
- Peace Without Victory and Gambling on Gratitude: Woodrow Wilson and Max Weber
- The German Revolution of 1918 and the Doctrine of Socialism
- The Centre Cannot Hold
- Epilogue.
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