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The recent renewal of interest in Max Weber evidences an attempt to enlist his thought in the service of a renewed dream of Enlightenment individualism. Yet he was the first twentieth-century thinker to fully appreciate the pervasiveness and ambiguity of rationalization which threatened to undermine the hopes of the Enlightenment.Asher Horowitz and Terry Maley present a collection of essays tracing the contemporary significance of Weber's work for the tradition of Enlightenment political thought and its critiques. In its critical inquiry into Weber's thought, The Barbarism of Reason continues the exploration of the limits and prospects of politics in a rationalizing society.The first section comprises a set of both historical and philosophical reflections on the political implications of Weber's central concepts such as disenchantment, rationality, and affectivity, the historical understanding, meaning, and domination. The second section examines the institutional and historical context that framed Weber's inquiries into structures of the modern mode of domination, as well as his understanding of the nature of the modern state. Among the topics broached are Weber's strategic intervention into the development of the liberal theory of the state as well as a critical examination of the theoretical and pre-theoretical roots of his construction of the subject. Another of the essays reveals the schizophrenic structure of modern subjectivity. The third and last section attempts to trace the vicissitudes of Weber's seminal problems concerning rationalization, power, and disenchantment through some of the most important responses to his work in the twentieth century.

Sociology --- Philosophy. --- Weber, Max, --- ウェーバー, マックス --- Weber, Max --- Horowitz, Asher --- Ma-kʻo-ssu Wei-po, --- Makesi Weibo, --- Pebŏ, --- Pebŏ, Maksŭ, --- Vēbā, Makkusu, --- Veber, Maks, --- Vemper, Max, --- Webŏ, Maksŭ, --- Wei-po, Ma-kʻo-ssu, --- Weibo, --- Weibo, Makesi, --- ובר, מאקס, --- ובר, מאכס --- ובר, מקס --- 韦伯,

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At a time when historical and cultural analyses are being subjected to all manner of ideological and disciplinary prodding and poking, the work of Max Weber, the brilliant social theorist and one of the most creative intellectual forces in the twentieth century, is especially relevant. In this significant study, Fritz Ringer offers a new approach to the work of Weber, interpreting his methodological writings in the context of the lively German intellectual debates of his day. According to Ringer, Weber was able to bridge the intellectual divide between humanistic interpretation and causal explanation in historical and cultural studies in a way that speaks directly to our own time, when methodological differences continue to impede fruitful cooperation between humanists and social scientists. In the place of the humanists' subjectivism and the social scientists' naturalism, Weber developed the flexible and realistic concepts of objective probability and adequate causation. Grounding technical theories in specific examples, Ringer has written an essential text for all students of Weber and of social theory in the humanities and social sciences. Fully reconstructed, Max Weber's methodological position in fact anticipated the most fruitful directions in our own contemporary philosophies of the cultural and social sciences. Ringer's conceptualization of Weber's approach and achievement elucidates Weber's reconciliation of interpretive understanding and causal explanation and shows its relevance to intellectual life and culture in Weber's own time and in ours as well.

Social scientists --- Scientists --- Policy scientists --- Weber, Max, --- ウェーバー, マックス --- Contributions in social sciences. --- Weber, Max --- Ma-kʻo-ssu Wei-po, --- Makesi Weibo, --- Pebŏ, --- Pebŏ, Maksŭ, --- Vēbā, Makkusu, --- Veber, Maks, --- Vemper, Max, --- Webŏ, Maksŭ, --- Wei-po, Ma-kʻo-ssu, --- Weibo, --- Weibo, Makesi, --- ובר, מאקס, --- ובר, מאכס --- ובר, מקס --- 韦伯,

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This book addresses, and at the same time reflects, the impact of Max Weber on both the social sciences and on critical theory's critique of the social sciences. Weber's conception of 'vocation' is a guiding thread unifying concerns about the nature, scope and limits of theoretical thinking among social scientists, whether supportive or critical of Weber. Not surprisingly, the source of many of these concerns, whether intended or unintended, biographical or situational, is the ambiguous legacy of Weber himself. Wilson's interrogation of Weber's thought in articles and essays over the past 30 years, supplemented by Kemple's insights, makes a strong case for the claim that we do indeed live in 'the age of Weber'.

Sociology --- Rationalism. --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Religion --- Belief and doubt --- Deism --- Free thought --- Realism --- History. --- Philosophy. --- Weber, Max, --- ウェーバー, マックス --- Weber, Max --- History --- Philosophy --- Rationalism --- Ma-kʻo-ssu Wei-po, --- Makesi Weibo, --- Pebŏ, --- Pebŏ, Maksŭ, --- Vēbā, Makkusu, --- Veber, Maks, --- Vemper, Max, --- Webŏ, Maksŭ, --- Wei-po, Ma-kʻo-ssu, --- Weibo, --- Weibo, Makesi, --- ובר, מאקס, --- ובר, מאכס --- ובר, מקס --- 韦伯,

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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.

Sociology. --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Weber, Max, --- ウェーバー, マックス --- Sociology --- Weber, Max --- Ma-kʻo-ssu Wei-po, --- Makesi Weibo, --- Pebŏ, --- Pebŏ, Maksŭ, --- Vēbā, Makkusu, --- Veber, Maks, --- Vemper, Max, --- Webŏ, Maksŭ, --- Wei-po, Ma-kʻo-ssu, --- Weibo, --- Weibo, Makesi, --- ובר, מאקס, --- ובר, מאכס --- ובר, מקס --- 韦伯, --- Sociology - Germany --- Weber, Max, - 1864-1920

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Max Weber is one of the world's most important social scientists, but he is also one of the most notoriously difficult to understand. This revised, updated, and expanded edition of The Max Weber Dictionary reflects up-to-the-moment threads of inquiry and introduces the most recent translations and references. Additionally, the authors include new entries designed to help researchers use Weber's ideas in their own work; they illuminate how Weber himself thought theorizing should occur and how he went about constructing a theory. More than an elementary dictionary, however, this work makes a contribution to the general culture and legacy of Weber's work. In addition to entries on broad topics like religion, law, and the West, the completed German definitive edition of Weber's work (Max Weber Gesamtausgabe) necessitated a wealth of new entries and added information on topics like pragmatism and race and racism. Every entry in the dictionary delves into Weber scholarship and acts as a point of departure for discussion and research. As such, this book will be an invaluable resource to general readers, students, and scholars alike.

Sociology --- Weber, Max, --- ウェーバー, マックス --- Weber, Max --- Ma-kʻo-ssu Wei-po, --- Makesi Weibo, --- Pebŏ, --- Pebŏ, Maksŭ, --- Vēbā, Makkusu, --- Veber, Maks, --- Vemper, Max, --- Webŏ, Maksŭ, --- Wei-po, Ma-kʻo-ssu, --- Weibo, --- Weibo, Makesi, --- ובר, מאקס, --- ובר, מאכס --- ובר, מקס --- 韦伯,