Intellectual Work and the Spirit of Capitalism - Weber''s Calling

"This book treats three lectures that Weber gave in the last decade of his career as a podium or prism from which to approach his best-known treatises and essays on the rise of occidental capitalism. His remarks on 'Technology and Culture' (1910) and hisfamous 'Science as a Vocation' (1917) and 'Politics as a Vocation' (1919 lectures) offer a standpoint for assessing the contemporary relevance of Weber''s notion of ''interpretive understanding'', including the place of ideal types and value-judgments insociology, as well as the use of rhetorical techniques and literary methods in scholarly discourse more generally. These public moments invite us to consider how both his most celebrated and least known arguments about the origins of the ''spirit'' of modern capitalism and the fateful force of bureaucracy continue to raise questions about the prospect and promise of intellectual work that still concern us today"--

List of contents

Introductory Remarks: Sociological Allegory in the Age of Weber PART I: FAUST'S STUDY 1. Polemical Arts of Speaking Sociologically: Weber's Lectern 2. Casuistic Disciplines of Capitalist Science: Weber's Bifocals 3. Narrative Conventions of Political Discourse: Weber's Prism PART II: TOLSTOY'S KEYNOTE 4. Cosmopolitan Ethics of War and Peace: Weber's Machine 5. Resurrecting Charisma: Weber's Pendulum Interim Reflections (In Lieu of a Conclusion): Intellectual Work and the Spirit of Capitalism

About the author

Thomas Kemple is Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia, Canada. His previous publications include Reading Marx Writing: Melodrama, the Market, and the ''Grundrisse'', and articles in the Journal of Classical Sociology and Theory, Culture & Society.

Report

"Anyone who is interested in Max Weber as a person and a scholar should read K.'s provocative and fascinating book." (Christopher Adair-Toteff, Theological Studies, Vol. 77 (1), 2016)

Product details

• Authors: T. Kemple, Thomas Kemple, Thomas M. Kemple
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.05.2014
• EAN: 9781137377135
• ISBN: 978-1-137-37713-5
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; B, Social Theory, Political Philosophy, International Relations, Political Theory, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Political Economy, Social Philosophy, Social sciences—Philosophy, International Political Economy, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Philosophy and social sciences, International Political Economy’, capitalism;ethics;Max Weber;Nation;politics;sociology