Max Weber : from history to modernity / Bryan S. Turner.

This authoritative collection of essays examines Weber's contribution to the contemporary debate about modernity and postmodernity.

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Main Author: Turner, Bryan S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.
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Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface Page; Introduction; Max Weber and the Panic Culture of Postmodernism; Max Weber's Historical Sociology: a Bibliographical Essay; Religion and Tradition; Islam, Capitalism and the Weber Theses; Origins and Traditions in Islam and Christianity; State, Science and Economy in Traditional Societies: Some Problems in Weberian Sociology of Science; Religion and State-Formation; Rational Bodies; The Rationalization of the Body: Reflections on Modernity and Discipline; The Body Politic: The Secularization of Sovereign Bodies; Modernization and Capitalism.