The Political and Social Theory of Max Weber

Collected Essays
Revised Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-7456-1132-7
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 361 g

Wolfgang J. Mommsen is one of the foremost Weberian scholars writing today. In this volume, a sequel to his monumental study Max Weber and German Politics, he provides succinct and incisive statements on current developments in the analysis of Weber's work.

The book concentrates upon Weber's engagement with political issues and their influence over his more theoretical concepts. Mommsen offers a critical analysis of Weber's notion of democracy and provides a thorough assessment of Weber's views of socialism against the backcloth of German Social Democracy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mommsen, Wolfgang J

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

Part I: Politics and Social Theory.

1. Politics and Scholarship: The Two Icons in Max Webers Life.

2. The Antinomical Structure of Max Weber's Political Thought.

3. Max Weber's Theory of Legitimacy Today.

Part II: Max Weber on Socialism and Political Radicalism.

4. Capitalism and Socialism: Weber's Dialogue with Marx.

5. Joining the Underdogs? Weber's Critique of the Social Democrats in Wilhelmine Germany.

6. Roberto Michels and Max Weber: Moral Conviction Versus the Politics of Responsibility.

Part III: The Development of Max Weber's Theoretical Ideas.

7. Max Weber on Bureaucracy and Bureaucratization: Threat to Liberty and Instrument of Creative Action.

8. Ideal Type and Pure Type: Two Variants of Max Weber's Ideal-typical Method.

9. Rationalization and Myth in Weber's Thought.

10. The Two Dimensions of Social Change in Max Weber's Sociological Theory.

Part IV: The Rediscovery of Max Weber.

11. Max Weber in Modern Social Thought.

Notes.

Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Wolfgang Mommsen is the author of numerous works including Max Weber and German Politics: The Age of Bureaucracy and Max Weber and his Contemporaries. He is also editor of the Max Weber Gesamtausgabe.