This book brings together leading figures in history, sociology,
political science, feminism and critical theory to interpret,
evaluate, criticize and update Weber's legacy. In a collection of
specially commissioned pieces and translated articles the Weberian
scholarship recognizes Max Weber as the figure central to
contemporary debates on the need for societal rationality, the
limits of reason and the place of culture and conduct in the
supposedly post-religious age.
In Part 1, Wolfgang Mommsen, Wilhelm Hennis, Guenther Roth and
Wolfgang Schluchter provide a full and varied account of the theme
of rationalization in the world civilizations. In Part 2 Pierre
Bourdieu and Barry Hindess critically examine Weber's social action
model, and Johannes Weiss and Martin Albrow address the putative
'crisis' of Western rationality. In Part 3 Jeffrey Alexander, Ralph
Schroeder, Bryan Turner, Roslyn Bologh and Sam Whimster scrutinize
Weber's understanding of modernity with its characteristic
plurality of 'gods and demons'; they focus on its implications for
individuality and personality, the body and sexuality, feminism and
aesthetic modernism. Part 4 turns to politics, law and the state in
the contemporary world: Colin Gordon on liberalism, Luciano Cavalli
on charismatic politics, Stephen Turner and Regis Factor on
decisionism and power and Scott Lash on modernism, substantice
rationality and law.
This book was first published in 1987.
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