Max Weber - The Lawyer as Social Thinker (Paperback)

"Max Weber: The Lawyer as Social Thinker" aims to relate the categories of Weber's social thinking to the intellectual context of legal thinking and theory in which he was educated. Its interpretive aim is to show how knowledge of these relations illuminates our understanding of Weber's own intentions. By comparing Weber's social theory of the teleological kind favoured by his contemporaries, which sought to identify social purposes and their effects and realization in history, but rather to radically undermine the project of teleological social theory by replacing categories of description that are amenable to or dependent upon teleological interpretations with categories that are specifically constructed to strip away teleology. The book identifies some of the key sources of Weber's thought in the legal tradition, notably the jurisprudential theorist Rudolph von Ihering, who was a classic teleological thinker, influenced by Bentham as well as by neo-Kantianism. Weber's famous definition of social action should be adequate on the level of meaning and adequate on the level of cause is shown to be a variant of Ihering's purposive definition of social action.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 1994
First published:	1994
Authors:	Stephen P. Turner
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	216
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-11452-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Jurisprudence & philosophy of law
LSN:	0-415-11452-7
Barcode:	9780415114523

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