Table Of Contents:
Preface vi
Abbreviations vii
Introduction 1(7)

The Specific and Peculiar Rationalism of Modern Western Civilization 8(41)

Capitalism and Calculability 10(6)

Legal Formalism 16(4)

Bureaucratic Administration 20(2)

Asceticism and the Ethic of Vocation 22(7)

Unifying Themes: Knowledge, Impersonality, Control 29(6)

Formal and Substantive Rationality 35(8)

The Idea of a Rational Society 43(6)

The Nature and Limits of Rational Action 49(12)

Rational and Non-Rational Action 50(1)

Wertrational and Zweckrational Action 51(2)

Subjective and Objective Rationality 53(2)

The Limits of Objective Rationality 55(6)

The Ethical Irrationality of the World 61(30)

The Clash of Value-Orientations 62(7)

The Clash of Value Spheres 69(13)

Value Conflict and Weber's Diagnosis of Modernity 82(9)

Weber's Moral Vision 91(24)

The Ethic of Personality: from Philosophical Anthropology to Moral Philosophy 91(7)

The Limits of Moral Rationality 98(3)

Moral Choice in the Modern World 101(8)

Weber's Moral Temperament 109(6)
Bibliography 115(3)
Index 118(117)
Preface xi

Introduction: theory of liberty, legitimacy, and power: new directions in the intellectual and scientific legacy of Max Weber 1(10)

Vatro Murvar

Part I Theoretical Perspectives

Power and stratification: Max Weber and beyond 11(29)

Thomas Burger

Patrimonialism, modern and traditionalist: a paradigm for interdisciplinary research on rulership and legitimacy 40(46)

Vatro Murvar

Law and society in Max Weber's sociology 86(22)

Edith E. Graber

Max Weber and the causality of freedom 108(17)

William W. Mayrl

Sociological demystification of the arts and music: Max Weber and beyond 125(16)

K. Peter Etzkorn

Part II Historical-comparative case studies

Confucianism, Maoism, and Max Weber 141(27)

David C. Yu

Weber and sultanism in the light of historical data 168(17)

Susan K. Croutwater

Patrimonialism in China and the Islamic world 185(31)

Vatro Murvar

Max Weber's human ecology of historical societies 216(19)

Patrick C. West
Appendix 235(9)
Bibliography 244(13)
Index 257
Introduction 1(12)

Stanislav Andreski
The Writings of Max Weber 13(3)
A Note on the Sources 16(3)

The Texts 19(142)

The Uniqueness of Western Civilisation 21(9)

The Failure of Capitalism in the Ancient World 30(29)

The Confucianist Bureaucracy and the Germs of Capitalism in China: the City and the Guild 59(26)

Hindu Religion, Caste and Bureaucratic Despotism as Factors of Economic Stagnation: the Caste and the Tribe 85(24)

The Nature of Modern Capitalism 109(2)

Protestantism and the Spirit of Capitalism 111(15)

Religion and Other Factors in the Development of Modern Capitalism 126(12)

The Distinctive Features of European Cities and the Rise of the West 138(12)

The State and Business Enterprise 150(8)

The End of Capitalism? 158(3)
Index 161
Preface vii

Preliminaries 1(14)

The personal and political background 1(4)

The style 5(3)

The different kinds of writings and their salient features 8(7)

Philosophy of the social sciences 15(36)

Objectivity and ethical neutrality 15(11)

What are we to understand by 'understanding'? 26(8)

Social actions and methodological individualism 34(7)

Ideal types 41(10)

Presiding substantive ideas 51(32)

Stress on open-ended causation 51(2)

Non predetermined evolution instead of predestinarian evolutionism 53(5)

The weakest point: the concept of rationalisation 58(25)

Systematic comparative sociology 83(31)

Law 83(9)

Religion 92(4)

General comments on types of power 96(3)

Bureaucracy 99(8)

Charisma 107(3)

Feudalism and patrimonialism 110(4)

Historical comparative sociology: the explanation of the rise of capitalism 114(30)

Analysis and historical research 114(5)

Predatory versus productive capitalism 119(4)

Capitalism and the religions 123(11)

Ethics and economics 134(5)

The position of cities and the military factor 139(5)

Conclusion: what should we learn from Weber to advance farther? 144(4)
Index 148(86)
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1(6)

Problems of context and interpretation 7(23)

Reason and decision: Weber's core doctrine and value choices 30(40)

The nature of value choice 30(20)

Weber's 'scholarly' value choice 50(9)

Weber's 'political' value choice 59(11)

Weber's political design 70(20)

The Weimar era dispute 90(31)

Words into action: Jaspers and Heidegger 121(14)

Nazism, fascism, and the later dispute 135(15)

The emergence of the dispute in England and America 150(30)

The English crisis of culture 151(10)

The American context 161(19)

The issue reframed: positivism and value-free social science 180(22)

Logical positivism and the dispute 191(11)

The later form of the critique 202(32)
Notes 234(14)
Bibliography 248(17)
Index 265
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: the problem of legitimacy in social theory 1(1)

Rousseau and Weber as typical theorists of legitimacy 1(1)

The concept of legitimacy: norm- and power-legitimacy 2(2)

Theories of legitimacy: subjectivist and objectivist 4(2)

'Belief theory and 'power' theory of legitimacy 6(3)

The rise of social theory: the birth of the idea of social problem in the Enlightenment 9(8)

Part one Rousseau's political philosophy

Rousseau's theory of political legitimacy: the general will 17(8)

The intellectual background of the Social Contract 25(10)

Conflicting misinterpretations and unilateral assessments 35(22)

The theory of democratic legitimacy 57(20)

Concluding remarks: Rousseau the 'anarchist' 77(12)

Part two Weber's sociology of legitimacy

An outline of Weber's theory of legitimacy 89(15)

A brief assessment of Weber's theory of legitimacy 104(33)

Conceptual queries: on charisma 104(9)

Empirical objections: on bureaucracy 113(9)

The suggestiveness of Weber's typology: towards a theory of charismatic bureaucracy 122(8)

The theoretical status of Weber's theory of legitimacy 130(7)

Historicism and sociology 137(65)

Historicisms galore 138(8)

The logic of historical science 146(9)

The theory of social causality 155(16)

Cultural history as sociological explanation 171(9)

Rationalization takes command 180(8)

The nemesis of culturalism 188(14)
Conclusion 202(23)
Notes 225(23)
Bibliography 248(19)
Index of subjects 267(4)
Index of authorities 271(310)
Preface xi
Abbreviations xiii

Introduction 1(22)

Wolfgang J. Mommsen

Part I Max Weber and the Social Sciences at the Turn of the Century 23(168)

A Science of Man: Max Weber and the Political Economy of the German Historical School 25(34)

Wilhelm Hennis

Gustav Schmoller and Max Weber 59(12)

Manfred Schon

Max Weber and the 'Younger' Generation in the Verein fur Sozialpolitik 71(17)

Dieter Kruger

Max and Alfred Weber in the Verein fur Sozialpolitik 88(11)

Eberhard Demm

Personal Conflict and Ideological Options in Sombart and Weber 99(7)

Arthur Mitzman

Varieties of Social Economics: Joseph A. Schumpeter and Max Weber 106(15)

Jurgen Osterhammel

Robert Michels and Max Weber: Moral Conviction versus the Politics of Responsibility 121(18)

Wolfgang J. Mommsen

Mosca, Pareto and Weber: A Historical Comparison 139(20)

David Beetham

Georges Sorel and Max Weber 159(11)

J. G. Merquior

Mill and Weber on History, Freedom and Reason 170(12)

Alan Ryan

Weber and Durkheim: Coincidence and Divergence 182(9)

Anthony Giddens

Part II Max Weber's Relation to the Theologians and Historians 191(106)

Max Weber and the Evangelical-Social Congress 193(10)

Rita Aldenhoff

Max Weber and the Lutherans 203(12)

W. R. Ward

Friendship between Experts: Notes on Weber and Troeltsch 215(19)

Friedrich Wilhelm Graf

Max Weber and Eduard Meyer 234(34)

Friedrich H. Tenbruck

Karl Lamprecht and Max Weber: Historical Sociology within the Confines of a Historians' Controversy 268(16)

Sam Whimster

Otto Hintze and Max Weber: Attempts at a Comparison 284(13)

Jurgen Kocka

Part III The Realm of Politics 297(106)

Friedrich Naumann and Max Weber: Aspects of a Political Partnership 299(12)

Peter Theiner

Max Weber and Walther Rathenau 311(12)

Ernst Schulin

Gustav Stresemann and Max Weber: Politics and Scholarship 323(11)

Gangolf Hubinger

Dietrich Schafer and Max Weber 334(11)

Roger Chickering

Eduard Bernstein and Max Weber 345(10)

John Breuilly

Max Weber, Karl Kautsky and German Social Democracy 355(12)

Dick Geary

Max Weber's Relation to Anarchism and Anarchists: The Case of Ernst Toller 367(15)

Dittmar Dahlmann

Max Weber and Antonio Gramsci 382(21)

Carl Levy

Part IV Max Weber and Philosophical Thought 403(142)

Weber and Nietzsche: Questioning the Liberation of Social Science from Historicism 405(17)

Robert Eden

The Ambiguity of Modernity: Georg Simmel and Max Weber 422(12)

David Frisby

Weber and the Southwest German School: The Genesis of the Concept of the Historical Individual 434(13)

Guy Oakes

Max Weber and Benedetto Croce 447(21)

Pietro Rossi

Weber and Freud: Vocation and Self-Acknowledgement 468(15)

Tracy B. Strong

Passion as a Mode of Life: Max Weber, the Otto Gross Circle and Eroticism 483(16)

Wolfgang Schwentker

Ernst Bloch and Georg Lukacs in Max Weber's Heidelberg 499(16)

Eva Karadi

Max Weber, Oswald Spengler and a Biographical Surmise 515(13)

Douglas Webster

Karl Jaspers: Thinking with Max Weber in Mind 528(17)

Dieter Henrich

Part V Max Weber: the Enduring Contemporary 545(36)

Max Weber and the World since 1920 547(27)

Edward Shils

Max Weber and Modern Social Science 574(7)

Ralf Dahrendorf
Contributors 581(4)
Index 585
Editions and Abbreviations of Weber Texts xv
Acknowledgements xvii
Introduction 1(34)

Sam Whimster

Scott Lash

PART ONE The Processes of Rationalization

Personal Conduct and Societal Change 35(17)

Wolfgang Mommsen

Personality and Life Orders: Max Weber's Theme 52(23)

Wilhelm Hennis

Rationalization in Max Weber's Developmental History 75(17)

Guenther Roth

Weber's Sociology of Rationalism and Typology of Religious Rejections of the World 92(27)

Wolfgang Schluchter

PART TWO Rationalization and the Limits of Rational Action

Legitimation and Structured Interests in Weber's Sociology of Religion 119(18)

Pierre Bourdieu

Rationality and the Characterization of Modern Society 137(17)

Barry Hindess

On the Irreversibility of Western Rationalization and Max Weber's Alleged Fatalism 154(10)

Johannes Weiss

The Application of the Weberian Concept of Rationalization to Contemporary Conditions 164(21)

Martin Albrow

PART THREE Problems of Modernity

The Dialectic of Individuation and Domination: Weber's Rationalization Theory and Beyond 185(22)

Jeffrey C. Alexander

Nietzsche and Weber: Two 'Prophets' of the Modern World 207(15)

Ralph Schroeder

The Rationalization of the Body: Reflections on Modernity and Discipline 222(20)

Bryan S. Turner

Max Weber on Erotic Love: A Feminist Inquiry 242(17)

Roslyn Wallach Bologh

The Secular Ethic and the Culture of Modernism 259(34)

Sam Whimster

PART FOUR Reason and the Political Order

The Soul of the Citizen: Max Weber and Michel Foucault on Rationality and Government 293(24)

Colin Gordon

Charisma and Twentieth-Century Politics 317(17)

Luciano Cavalli

Decisionism and Politics: Weber as Constitutional Theorist 334(21)

Stephen Turner

Regis Factor

Modernity or Modernism? Weber and Contemporary Social Theory 355(23)

Scott Lash
References 378(12)
Index 390