Oxford Handbook of Max Weber

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-0-19-067954-5
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 680 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1323 g

Active at the time when the social sciences were founded, Max Weber's social theory contributed significantly to a wide range of fields and disciplines. Considering his prominence, it makes sense to take stock of the Weberian heritage and to explore the ways in which Weber's work and ideas have contributed to our understanding of the modern world. Using his work as a point of departure, The Oxford Handbook of Max Weber investigates the Weberian legacy today, identifying the enduring problems and themes associated with his thought that have contemporary significance: the nature of modern capitalism, neo-liberal global economic policy, nationalism, religion and secularization, threats to legality, the culture of modernity, bureaucratic rule and leadership, politics and ethics, the value of science, power and inequality. These problems are global in scope, and the Weberian approach has been used to address them in very different societies. Thus, the Handbook also features chapters on Europe, Turkey, Islam, Judaism, China, India, and international politics. The Handbook emphasizes the use and application of Weber's ideas. It offers a journey through the intellectual terrain that scholars continue to explore using the tools and perspectives of Weberian analysis. The essays explore how Weber's concepts, hypotheses, and perspectives have been applied in practice, and how they can be applied in the future in social inquiry, not only in Europe and North America, but globally. The volume is divided into six parts exploring, in turn: Capitalism in a Globalized World, Society and Social Structure, Politics and the State, Religion, Culture, and Science and Knowledge.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hanke, Edith

Scaff, Lawrence A.

Whimster, Sam

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- About the Editors

- List of Contributors

- Abbreviated Titles for Max Weber's Texts

- Chronology of Max Weber's Life

- Introduction

- 1. Introduction

- Edith Hanke, Lawrence Scaff, and Sam Whimster

- Part I. The Economy: Capitalism in a Globalized World

- 2. Economics and Society and the Fate of Liberal Capitalism

- Sam Whimster

- 3. Max Weber's Analysis of Capitalism

- Hinnerk Bruhns

- 4. Money, Credit, and Finance in Capitalism

- Geoffrey Ingham

- 5. Law and the Development of Capitalism

- Laura R. Ford

- 6. Is there a Future for Bourgeois Liberalism

- Robert J. Antonio

- Part II. Society and Social Structure

- 7. Contemporary Capitalism and The Distribution of Power in Society

- John Scott

- 8. Weberian Social Theory: Rationalization in a Globalized World

- Ralph Schroeder

- 9. Max Weber, Civil Society, and Partisanship

- Sung Ho Kim

- 10. Nation, Nation-State, and Nationalism

- John Breuilly

- 11. The Weberian City, Civil Society, and Turkish Social Thought

- Lütfi Sunar

- Part III: Politics and the State

- 12. The Modern State and its Monopoly on Violence

- Andreas Anter

- 13. The Relevance of Weber's Conception and Typology of Herrschaft

- Stefan Breuer

- 14. The Supra-National Dimension in Max Weber's Vision of Politics

- Kari Palonen

- 15. Plebiscitary Politics and the Threats to Legality

- Claudius Härpfer

- 16. Politics and Ethics, and the Ethic of Politics

- Hans Henrik Bruun

- Part IV: Religion

- 17. Max Weber's Ethics for the Modern World

- Peter Ghosh

- 18. Max Weber and the Late Modernization of Catholicism

- Rosario Forlenza and Bryan Turner

- 19. The "Disenchantment of the World" or Why We Can No Longer Use the Formula As Max Weber Might Have Intended

- Kenichi Mishima

- 20. Weber's China: Confucianism and Vernacular

- Scott Lash

- 21. Class, Caste, and Social Stratification in India: Weberian Legacy

- Hira Singh

- 22. Including Islam

- Stefan Leder

- 23. The Study of Ancient Israel and its Relevance for Contemporary Politics

- Eduardo Weisz

- Part V: Culture

- 24. The Rationalizations of Culture and Their Directions

- Thomas Kemple

- 25. Max Weber and the Sociology of Music

- Brandon Konoval

- 26. Contemporary Life Conduct and Existential Cultures

- Barbara Thériault

- 27. From Occidental Rationalism to Multiple Modernities

- Johann P. Arnason

- 28. Max Weber and the Idea of the Occident

- Joshua Derman

- Part VI: Science and Knowledge

- 29. Intellectuals, Scholars, and the Value of Science

- Gangolf Hübinger

- 30. The Iron Cage in the Information Age

- Jos C. N. Raadschelders

- 31. Causation, Value Judgments, Verstehen

- Stephen P. Turner

- 32. Realism and Reality in Max Weber

- Sérgio da Mata

Über Autor(innen)

Edith Hanke is managing editor of the Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Munich. She worked on Leo Tolstoy and his significance for German cultural debate c. 1900. She edited Max Weber's "Sociology of Domination" for the Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe (I/22-4 and I/23) and is currently engaged in research on Max Weber's worldwide proliferation and reception.

Lawrence A. Scaff is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Wayne State University, Detroit. He is the author of Fleeing the Iron Cage (University of California Press, 1989), Max Weber in America (Princeton University Press, 2011; German translation Duncker & Humblot, 2013), and Weber and the Weberians (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

Sam Whimster is Professor Emeritus of Sociology in the Global Policy Institute, London, and is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences. He is the editor of the journal Max Weber Studies and the author of Understanding Weber

(Routledge, 2007; Portuguese translation 2007). He edited, with Hans Henrik Bruun, Max Weber's Collected Methodological Writings(Routledge, 2012). He is co-author of Federal Central Banks (Forum Press, 2018).