A Weberian Perspective on Home, Nature and Sport

Disenchantment and Salvation
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-15649-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 304 g

Reihe: Classical and Contemporary Social Theory

This book extends Max Weber’s theory of the value-spheres of modernity into wholly new areas, showing that the addition of home, nature and sport to Weber’s own list of five spheres (economic, scientific/intellectual, political/legal, erotic and aesthetic) yields original insights into these aspects of modernity and modernity itself. It shows how each of these new spheres is able to create its own ‘inner cosmos’ of salvation from rationalised senselessness, just as Weber’s ‘irrational’ spheres offer release from the grim reality of capitalism, the disenchanted universe and the bureaucratic state formed by the more ‘rationalised’ spheres. Drawing on a wide, cross-disciplinary range of sources, the author sheds light on the role of home in creating a sense of our enchanted past, of nature in helping to restore to the world a teleological meaning constructed from innocence and purity and of sport in imposing sense on the world, at least temporarily. A Weberian Perspective on Home, Nature and Sport: Disenchantment and Salvation will appeal to scholars of sociology and social theory with interests in classical sociological theory and the analysis of modernity.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Symonds, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: An Invitation

Part 1: The Weberian Perspective

2. Meaning and the Value-Spheres of Modernity

3. Brotherly Love and the Guilt of Modernity

Part 2: The Additional Value-Spheres

4. Home

5. Nature

6. Sport

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Symonds is Adjunct Fellow with the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University, Australia. He is the author of Max Weber’s Theory of Modernity and The Appeal of Art in Modernity.