Max Weber's science of man : new studies for a biography of the work
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Max Weber's science of man : new studies for a biography of the work
Threshold Press, 2000
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Max Webers Wissenschaft vom Menschen
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Originally published: Tübingen : J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1995
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Description
In this work, the author continues his argument against received wisdom in the understanding of Max Weber. He seeks to rescue the work of this important thinker from sociologists and systems-theorists, demonstrating an essential continuity throughout Weber's work in his concern with the pervasive force of economic calculation and material rationality in the shaping of "man". Ranging widely over the work of Weber's contemporaries, and making use of Weber's unpublished papers and correspondence, the author provides an elegant account of the motive of Weber's scholarship. He demonstrates how a better understanding of Weber in his own context can present us with a figure who can still teach us, as he sought to teach his own contemporaries.
Table of Contents
Part One Max Weber's Science of Man I Max Weber's Science of Man 1 Is there a Weberian Anthropology? 2 Weber and the Contemporary Sciences of Man 3 Weber's Epistemological Objective: The Empirical Registration of Human 'Dispositions' 4 The Spiritualist Foundation of Max Weber's 'Interpretative Sociology'. Ernst Troeltsch, Max Weber and William James' Varieties of Religious Experience 5 The Sociology of Educational Means and Ends 6 Charisma and 'Inner' Transformation Part Two The Value Relation and the Power of Judgement II Max Weber as Teacher 1 The Educational Intention 2 The Systematic Perspective of the Work 3 The Disciplinary Context 4 The Meaning of 'Value Freedom' for the Communication of Practical Insights 5 Max Weber's Failure III The Pitiless 'Sobriety of Judgement': Max Weber between Carl Menger and Gustav von Schmoller. The Academic Politics of Value Freedom 1 Between History and 'Theory' - Also a Generational Conflict 2 The Pedagogic Background to the 'Postulate' 3 On Stage at the Conferences of Higher Education Teachers 4 Academic Scholars or 'Business Professors' IV The Meaning of Value Freedom - Impulse and Motive for Max Weber's 'Postulate' 1 The Origin of the Debate 2 Weber's Motives Part Three The 'Cultural Problems of Capitalism' V Outlines for an 'Intellectual Biography' of Max Weber 1 Talent, Diligence and Curiosity 2 The Formation of Sensibility 3 Early Reading 4 Friedrich Albert Lange 5 The Machinery of Modern Capitalism 6 A New Beginning and the Fixing of Central Interests 7 The 'Cultural Problems of Capitalism' and the 'Major Projects' Translator's Appendix
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