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Record Nr.

UNINA9910172257603321

Autore

Lowith Karl <1897-1973.>

Titolo

Max Weber and Karl Marx / / Karl Lowith ; edited with an introduction by Tom Bottomore and William Outhwaite ; translated by Hans Fantel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1993

ISBN

1-134-86999-1

1-138-17680-X

1-134-87000-0

1-280-07085-4

0-585-44764-0

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (142 p.)

Collana

Controversies in sociology ; ; no. 12

Altri autori (Persone)

BottomoreT. B. <1920-1992.>

OuthwaiteWilliam

Disciplina

301.092

301/.092/2

Soggetti

Sociology - Germany - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translation of: Max Weber und Karl Marx, originally published in Archiv fur Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik, v. 66, 1932, and reprinted, slightly revised, in the author's: Gesammelte Abhandlungen, 1960.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface to the new edition; Note on the translation; Introduction to the translation; Introduction; Weber's interpretation of the bourgeois-capitalist world in terms of 'rationalisation'; Marx's interpretation of the bourgeois-capitalist world in terms of human 'self-alienation'; Weber's critique of the materialist conception of history; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is a key text in modern interpretations of alienation in Marxist theory and rationalization in Weber's sociology. It remains the best student introduction to the differences and comparisons between these two essential thinkers.