| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNISA996214641303316 |
|
|
Titolo |
The Cambridge companion to Weber / / edited by Stephen Turner [[electronic resource]] |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
1-139-81558-X |
1-139-00229-5 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (xx, 288 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015). |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
Rationality, economy, and society / Jon Elster -- Rationalization and culture / Alan Sica -- Psychophysics and culture / Wolfgang Schluchter -- The rule of man over man: politics, power and legitimation / Peter Lassman -- Weber on the cultural situation of the modern age / Lawrence A. Scaff -- Global capitalism and multi-ethnicity: Max Weber then and now / Guenther Roth -- Constitutional Caesarism: Weber's politics in their German context / Sven Eliaeson -- Max Weber's Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism / Alastair Hamilton -- Max Weber's orient / John Love -- Max Weber's Ancient Judaism / John Love -- Max Weber as legal historian / Harold J. Berman and Charles J. Reid, Jr.-- From agrarian history to cross-cultural comparisons: Weber on Greco-Roman antiquity / Wilfried Nippel -- Max Weber as economist and economic historian / Stanley L. Engerman. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
Max Weber is indubitably one of the very greatest figures in the history of the social sciences, the source of seminal concepts like 'the Protestant Ethic', 'charisma' and the idea of historical processes of 'rationalization'. But, like his great forebears Adam Smith and Karl Marx, Weber's work always resists easy categorisation. Prominent as a founding father of sociology, Weber has been a major influence in the study of ancient history, religion, economics, law and, more recently, cultural studies. This Cambridge Companion provides an authoritative introduction to the major facets of his thought, including several (like industrial psychology) which have hitherto been neglected. A |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
distinguished international team of contributors examines some of the major controversies that have erupted over Weber's specialized work, and shows how the issues have developed since he wrote. The articles demonstrate Weber's impact on a variety of research areas. |
|
|
|
|
|
| |