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1 online resource (241 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Studies in Critical Social Sciences
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Studies in critical social sciences.
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Max Weber's Theory of Personality; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Max Weber's Theory of Personality; 2. Individuation; 3. Politics; 4. Orientalism; 5. Organisation of the Book; 6. Summary of the Chapters; 1. From the Historical Individual to the Sociological Personality; 1. Singularisation and Individualisation of History; 2. The Notion of Individuality in 19th Century Historiography; 3. The Heidelberg School and the Axiological Foundation of the Historical Individual; 3.1. Windelband, Rickert and Lask. |
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4. Universalism of Values and Anti-Naturalism: Logical Antinomies and Political Implications5. Historical Individual and Subjective Axiology in Max Weber; 5.1. Subjectivism and Polytheism of Values. Weber between Menger and Nietzsche; 6. Causality and Rationality Versus Unpredictability and Irrationality of Action; 7. Towards a Theory of Personality; 2. A Lexicon of Individuation: Bildung, Religion, Personality; 1. Introduction; 2. Religion, between the Individual and Society; 3. From Magic to Religion: Disenchantment and Rationalisation. |
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4. Conceptions of God in the Orient and in the Western World5. The Theodicy of Suffering and the Religions of Redemption; 5.1. Exemplary Prophecy and Ethical Prophecy: The Individual as Container and as Instrument; 6. Ascetic and Mystical Orientation; 6.1. Asceticism, Mysticism and Social Transformation; 7. Irrationalisation of Ends, Rationalisation of Means: On Formal Rationality; 8. Religion and Economics: Negative Dialectic and the Birth of Capitalism; 3. Puritan Personality and Political Leadership of Capital; 1. A 'Partial' Synopsis. |
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1.1. The Protestant Diaspora in North America and 'Political' Individualism2. Criticisms, Condemnations and Misinterpretations; 3. Avant le Déluge: An Anachronic Approach to Interpreting "The Protestant Ethic"; 3.1. First Analepsis: The Freiburg Address; 3.2. Second Analepsis: Kulturkampf and the Journey to the United States; 4. Rationalisation and Specialisation; 5. Weber Versus the Neo-Humanism of Wilhelm von Humboldt; 6. Weber Versus the Realisation of Individuality in Marx; 7. Puritan Personality and Political Leadership of Capital; 4. The Roots of Rationalisation: Ancient Judaism. |
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1. Social Stratification in Ancient Palestine2. Jewish Hierocracy: Between Bureaucracy and Charisma; 2.1. The Circle of 'Yahweh Intellectuals': The Levites; 2.2. The "Titans of Holy Curse": The Prophets of Doom; 3. The Historicity of the World and the Dislocation of Authority; 4. On the Utility and Liability of Marginality for Judaism: The Community of the Covenant and the Pariah-People; 4.1. Centrality of the Periphery; 4.2. Ethical Universalism and Religious Particularism of the Pariah-People; 5. Collective Emancipation Versus Individual Salvation: The Jewish "Personality." |
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5. Paradoxes of Religious Individualism: On Weber's Sociology of India. |
| Summary |
Providing a detailed reconstruction of the concept of personality within Weber's systematic studies of world religions, this book shows its complex development within three related problematics associated with Weber's influential comparative historical sociology - individuation, politics and orientalism. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-224) and indexes. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Weber, Max, 1864-1920.
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Weber, Max, 1864-1920. |
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Weber, Max, 1864-1920. |
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Religion and sociology.
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Religion and sociology. |
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Personality.
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Personality. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Farris, Sara R. Max Weber's Theory of Personality. Leiden : BRILL, 2013 9789004254084 |
| ISBN |
9789004254091 (electronic book) |
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9004254099 (electronic book) |
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1299975747 (e-book) |
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9781299975743 (e-book) |
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