Max Weber and the Protestant Ethic - Twin Histories

Zusatztext Peter Ghosh stands alone in the Anglophone world as the most knowledgeable expert on Max Weber's work and person in the context of Anglo and Continental intellectual history. He has succeeded in writing an intellectual biography of Max Weber which has never been attempted before in this depth and breadth. As an intellectual history which comprises the wider cultural context of the early twentieth century, it will be of interest to historians and social scientists beyond the circle of Weberian specialists Informationen zum Autor Peter Ghosh was a Junior Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford (1980-1), and has been a Fellow in History at St. Anne's College, Oxford since 1981. Klappentext An intellectual biography of Max Weber which uses his most famous work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism as its starting point, with wider reference to the social, political, and religious thought of the time Zusammenfassung An intellectual biography of Max Weber which uses his most famous work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism as its starting point, with wider reference to the social, political, and religious thought of the time Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The Genesis of the Protestant Ethic - and the History of Max Weber c.1884-1905 1: A Problem 2: A Situation Report c.1897 3: A Narrative 1898-1905 4: Capitalism 5: Politics and Nationality 6: Religion 7: Rationality and Law 8: A Whole Text? Part II. The Second History of the Protestant Ethic - Max Weber, 1905-1920 1: 1905-8: Going into Hibernation 2: The "Anti-critical" Essays 3: Recalled to Life: from the Protestant Ethic to 'Economy and Society' and The World Religions 4: War and Peace: 1915-20 5: Religiosity and Modernity (I) 6: Religiosity and Modernity (II) 7: Capitalism and Herrschaft 8: From the Sects to 'the City': Max Weber the 'fairly pure bourgeois' Envoi: Who was Max Weber? ...

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• Authors: Peter Ghosh, Ghosh Peter
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2014
• EAN: 9780198702528
• ISBN: 978-0-19-870252-8
• No. of pages: 424
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Europäische Geschichte, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, History of Ideas, European History, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, RELIGION / History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, History - General History, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social & political philosophy, History of Religion, social and political philosophy, Social and cultural history, Western philosophy from c 1800, Biography: historical, political and military, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -