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Iron Cage Revisited - Max Weber in the Neoliberal Era

Englisch · Taschenbuch

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Beschreibung

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Meaning of the Cage Imagery 2. The Point of the Imagery: Irrational Rationalism 3. A "Post-Bureaucratic" Age? 4. Post Materialist (or Neoliberal)? 5. The Democratic Prospect

Über den Autor / die Autorin

R. Bruce Douglass is Associate Professor and former Chair of the Department of Government at Georgetown University, USA, where he teaches political and social theory. He has also served as Dean of the Faculty of Georgetown College. He has taught at the University of Virginia as a visiting professor and has been a visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He is the co-editor of Liberalism and the Good, Catholicism and Liberalism and A Nation under God?

Zusammenfassung

This book reveals the enduring relevance of Weber’s thought by challenging the notion that with the apparent triumph of freedom, contemporary Western societies have escaped from Weber’s ‘iron cage’.

Zusatztext

"In his book, R. Bruce Douglass takes on the major issues of today: democracy in retreat; the rise of populism; and the challenges to liberalism. He brings new insights to each of these topics based on carefully laid out deliberations and profound understanding of our time. A must read."Amitai Etzioni, author of Happiness is the Wrong Metric: A Liberal Communitarian Response to Populism.

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