Shaping the Profession Towards a Genealogy of Professional Ethics

The figure of the "professional" looms large in our contemporary society as an ideal for economic activity and socio-political inclusion, and even as a model for individual self-development. But how and when did this figure arise? And what has led professional activity to become such an essential part of our personal, social, moral, economic, and political life? While Max Weber and others have famously addressed these questions, this book reveals a more nuanced history of the concept of "profession" and "professional duty," and offers the first comprehensive study of the discourse of professional ethics from a historical perspective. Italy, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom provide most of the rich corpus of philosophical, juridical, and theological sources discussed throughout the book in its longue durée journey from Ancient Rome to the present.

About the author

Tiziana Faitini (PhD, 2014) is research fellow in Political Philosophy at the University of Trento, Italy. Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte in Mainz, Germany, and a Marie Sk¿odowska-Curie COFUND research fellow at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies in Erfurt, Germany.

Product details

• Authors: Tiziana Faitini
• Publisher: Brill Schöningh
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 12.06.2023
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9783506790194
• ISBN: 978-3-506-79019-4
• Pages: 284
• Dimensions (packing): 17.4 x 2.7 x 23.7 cm
• Weight (packing): 704 g
• Series: Law and Religion in the Early Modern Period / Recht und Religion in der Frühen Neuzeit > 4; Law and Religion in the Early Modern Period / Recht und Religion in der Frühen N; Brill | Schöningh
• Subjects: Europa, Status, Shaping, Europäische Geschichte: Renaissance, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Soziale und politische Philosophie, Ethics, Max Weber, Europäische Geschichte: Reformation, Profession, Office, Europa / Geschichte, Kulturgeschichte, Reformation - Reformationszeit - Reformationstag, Renaissance - Frührenaissance, Philosophie / Gesellschaft, Politik, Staat, Genealogy, Professional, Intellectual History, Tiziana, ca. 1500 bis zur Gegenwart, Towards, Work ethic, LREM, Representations of work, Professional duty, History of professional ethics, History of political concepts, Faitini