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Intellectual work and the spirit of capitalism : Weber's calling
- Title
- Intellectual work and the spirit of capitalism : Weber's calling / Thomas Kemple.
- Author
- Kemple, Thomas M., 1962-
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Supplementary Content
- Cover image
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- Description
- xiv, 266 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "This book treats three lectures that Weber gave in the last decade of his career as a podium or prism from which to approach his best-known treatises and essays on the rise of occidental capitalism. His remarks on 'Technology and Culture' (1910) and his famous 'Science as a Vocation' (1917) and 'Politics as a Vocation' (1919 lectures) offer a standpoint for assessing the contemporary relevance of Weber''s notion of ''interpretive understanding'', including the place of ideal types and value-judgments in sociology, as well as the use of rhetorical techniques and literary methods in scholarly discourse more generally. These public moments invite us to consider how both his most celebrated and least known arguments about the origins of the ''spirit'' of modern capitalism and the fateful force of bureaucracy continue to raise questions about the prospect and promise of intellectual work that still concern us today"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-255) and indexes.
- Contents
- Introductory Remarks: Sociological Allegory in the Age of Weber -- Part I. Faust's Study: 1. Polemical Arts of Speaking Sociologically: Weber's Lectern; 2. Casuistic Disciplines of Capitalist Science: Weber's Bifocals; 3. Narrative Conventions of Political Discourse: Weber's Prism -- Part II. Tolstoy's Keynote: 4. The Cosmopolitan Ethics of War and Peace: Weber's Machine; 5. Resurrecting Charisma: Weber's Pendulum -- Interim Reflections: Intellectual Work and the Spirit of Capitalism -- Appendix A. Sombart versus Weber on 'Technology and Culture' (1910-11) -- Appendix B. The Free Students Federation and 'Intellectual Work as a Vocation' (1917-19) -- Appendix C. Lecture notes for 'Politics as a Vocation' (1919) -- Appendix D. Outline of the interpretive sciences of action: Economy and Society (1910-20) -- Appendix E. Schema for the historical-comparative sociology of world culture: The Economic Ethics of World Religions (1904-1920).
- Call Number
- JBD 14-247
- ISBN
- 9781137377135 (hardback)
- 1137377135 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2014018480
- OCLC
- 865063421
- Author
- Kemple, Thomas M., 1962- author.
- Title
- Intellectual work and the spirit of capitalism : Weber's calling / Thomas Kemple.
- Publisher
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-255) and indexes.
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- Research Call Number
- JBD 14-247