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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779806503321

Autore

Turner Bryan S.

Titolo

Max Weber : from history to modernity / / Bryan S. Turner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1992

ISBN

1-134-84955-9

1-134-84956-7

1-280-32584-4

9786610325849

0-203-16384-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 p.)

Disciplina

301.092

Soggetti

Sociology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reprint. First published 1992.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface Page; Introduction; Max Weber and the Panic Culture of Postmodernism; Max Weber's Historical Sociology: a Bibliographical Essay; Religion and Tradition; Islam, Capitalism and the Weber Theses; Origins and Traditions in Islam and Christianity; State, Science and Economy in Traditional Societies: Some Problems in Weberian Sociology of Science; Religion and State-Formation; Rational Bodies; The Rationalization of the Body: Reflections on Modernity and Discipline; The Body Politic: The Secularization of Sovereign Bodies; Modernization and Capitalism

Simmel, Rationalization and the Sociology of Money Nietzsche, Weber and the Devaluation of Politics: The Problem of State Legitimacy; Conclusion; Sociology and the Science of 'Man'; References; Name index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

This wide-ranging and assured book, written by one of the leading Weber scholars in the English-speaking world, shows us the many sides of Max Weber. The book provides an authoritative guide to the current burning issues in social theory, religion, rationalization, the body, modernization and capitalism. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in Weber's claim that the aim of sociology must be to explain what is distinctive about the times in which we live.