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

• Autore: Turner Bryan S.
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1992
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (283 p.)
• Disciplina: 301.092
• Soggetto topico: Sociology
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Max Weber
• ISBN: 1-134-84955-9; 1-134-84956-7; 1-280-32584-4; 9786610325849; 0-203-16384-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779806503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II