Max Weber's Science of Man - Couverture souple

Hennis, Wilhelm

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1903152003 ISBN 13 : 9781903152003

Editeur : Threshold Press Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

In this work, the author continues his argument against received wisdom in the understanding of Max Weber. He seeks to rescue the work of this important thinker from sociologists and systems-theorists, demonstrating an essential continuity throughout Weber's work in his concern with the pervasive force of economic calculation and material rationality in the shaping of "man". Ranging widely over the work of Weber's contemporaries, and making use of Weber's unpublished papers and correspondence, the author provides an elegant account of the motive of Weber's scholarship. He demonstrates how a better understanding of Weber in his own context can present us with a figure who can still teach us, as he sought to teach his own contemporaries.

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À propos de l'auteur

Born in 1923, Wilhelm Hennis served in the German navy during the war, after which he studied law at Gottingen. During 1951 and 1952 he was parliamentary assistant to Adolf Arndt, legal adviser to the SPD, and research assistant to Carlo Schmid at Frankfurt University from 1953 to 1960. From 1967 to until his retirement in 1988 he was Professor of Political Science at the University of Freiburg. He still lives in Freiburg, and he remains an acerbic commentator upon modern politics. The Translator Born in 1949, Keith Tribe studied social sciences and economic history at the Universities of Essex and Cambridge, and was appointed to Keele University in 1976, where he is now Reader in Economics. From 1979 to 1984 he was a visiting research fellow at the University of Heidelberg and the Max Planck Institut fur Geschichte, Gottingen.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Threshold Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1903152003
• ISBN 13: 9781903152003
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
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• Personne responsable: non disponible