Max Weber (International Library of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought)

This volume contains key writings, mainly recent, that define the current debate concerning our understanding of the nature of Max Weber's social and political thought. Topics covered include the interpretation of his central concepts; problems of method; meaning and value; liberalism, nationalism and democracy; and the fate of politics in a disenchanted world. Supplemented by a detailed and thoughtful introduction, this collection will be essential for libraries in social sciences and all scholars and students of Weber. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgements Series Preface Introduction PART I MAX WEBER: CENTRAL THEMES 1 ‘The Problem of Thematic Unity in the Works of Max Weber’, British Journal of Sociology, 31, pp. 316–51 2 ‘Max Weber’s “Central Question’” , Economy and Society, 12, pp. 135–80 3 ‘Leo Strauss’s Confrontation with Max Weber: A Search for a Genuine Social Science’, Review of Politics, 59, pp. 97–125 4 ‘Industrialization and Capitalism’, New Left Review, 30, pp. 3–17 5 ‘Max Weber: Legitimation, Method, and the Politics of Theory’, Political Theory, 9, pp. 401–24 PART II PROBLEMS OF METHOD 6 ‘The Problem of Reference in Max Weber’s Theory of Causal Explanation’, Human Studies, 9, pp. 21–12 7 ‘Weber on Action’, American Sociological Review, 48, pp. 506–19 8 ‘Max Weber’s Idea of “Puritanism”: A Case Study in the Empirical Construction of the Protestant Ethic’, History of European Ideas, 29, pp. 183–221 9 ‘Weber’s The Protestant Ethic as Hypothetical Narrative of Original Accumulation’, Journal of Classical Sociology, 5, pp. 11–30 10 ‘The Meaning of “ Wertfreiheit” on the Background and Motives of Max Weber’s “Postulate”’, Sociological Theory, 12, pp. 113–25 PART III MEANING AND VALUE 11 ‘Methodological Ambivalence: The Case of Max Weber’, Social Research, 49, pp. 589–615 12 ‘Bad Conscience for a Nietzschean Age: Weber’s Calling for Science’, Review of Politics, 45, pp. 366–92 13 “‘What Have We to Do with Morals?” Nietzsche and Weber on History and Ethics’, History of the Human Sciences, 5, pp. 9–18 14 ‘Max Weber’s Reconceptualization of Freedom’, Political Theory, 27, pp. 523–14 15 ‘Max Weber on Value Rationality and Value Spheres’, Journal of Classical Sociology, 3, pp. 27–45 16 ‘The Incongruity Between Destiny and Merit: Max Weber on Meaningful Existence and Modernity’, British Journal of Sociology, 36, pp. 516–30 PART IV LIBERALISM, NATIONALISM AND DEMOCRACY 17 ‘Max Weber’s Politics and Political Education’, American Political Science Review, 67, pp. 128–41 18 ‘Doing Without Liberalism: Weber’s Regime Politics’, Political Theory, 10, pp. 379–107 19 ‘The Antinomian Structure of Max Weber’s Political Thought’, Current Perspectives in Social Theory, 4, pp. 289–311 20 ‘Max Weber’s Liberalism for a Nietzschean World’, American Political Science Review, 82, pp. 31–50 21 ‘Max Weber and the Liberal Political Tradition’, Archives Europeennes de Sociologie, 30, pp. 311–23 22 ‘Was Max Weber a “Nationalist”? A Study in the Rhetoric of Conceptual Change’, Max Weber Studies, 1, pp. 196–214 23 ‘Max Weber’s Liberal Nationalism’, History of Political Thought, 23, pp. 432–57 PART V POLITICS IN A DISENCHANTED WORLD 24 ‘Max Weber: Integrity, Disenchantment, and the Illusions of Politics’, Constellations, 6, pp. 540–60 25 ‘The Political Logic of Economics and the Economic Logic of Modernity in Max Weber’, Political Theory, 23, pp. 25–17 26 ‘Max Weber and the Rights of Citizens’, Max Weber Studies, 4, pp. 23–19 27 ‘Max Weber’s Missing Definition of “Political Action” in his “Basic Sociological Concepts”: Simultaneously a Commentary on Some Aspects of Kari Palonen’s Writings on Max Weber’, Max Weber Studies, 4, pp. 179–200 Name Index Contains articles that define the debate concerning our understanding of the nature of Max Weber's social and political thought. This work covers various topics, including the interpretation of his central concepts, problems of method, meaning and value and the fate of politics in a disenchanted world.