Intellectual Work and the Spirit of Capitalism [electronic resource] : Weber's Calling /
Kemple, Thomas.author.
This book offers a unique and accessible way of conceptualizing the vocations of art, science, and politics in the capitalist world through an examination of some neglected features of the work of the scholar who first traced their origins and consequences in 'the West': Max Weber.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Preamble and Acknowledgements; Introductory Remarks: Sociological Allegory in the Age of Weber; Re: Marx on capitalism and the limits of occidentalism; An untimely portrait of Weber in the sociological cineplex; Part I: Faust's Study; 1 Polemical Arts of Speaking Sociologically: Weber's Lectern; 'Fellow Students!'; The trials of Homo clausus (Goethe); 2 Casuistic Disciplines of Capitalist Science: Weber's Bifocals; The case of capitalist modernity; The spirit of Homo economicus (Franklin); 3 Narrative Conventions of Political Discourse: Weber's Prism
The charisma of reason as vanishing mediatorThe calling of Homo politicus (Luther); Part II: Tolstoy's Keynote; 4 The Cosmopolitan Ethics of War and Peace: Weber's Machine; The citizen and the Signori (Florentine Histories); Arjuna and Krishna (Bhagavadgita); Jesus and the Grand Inquisitor (The Brothers Karamazov); 5 Resurrecting Charisma: Weber's Pendulum; Siegmund's lament (The Valkyries); The nightwatchman's call (Isaiah); Philomel's greeting (The Sonnets); Interim Reflections: Intellectual Work and the Spirit of Capitalism; Thinker on stage; And yet!; The entrepreneurial self
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 the World Religions (1904-20); Bibliography; Subject Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book offers a unique and accessible way of conceptualizing the vocations of art, science, and politics in the capitalist world through an examination of some neglected features of the work of the scholar who first traced their origins and consequences in 'the West': Max Weber.
Weber, Max, 1864-1920.
Political theory.
Political philosophy.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Philosophy and social sciences.
Political economy.
Political Theory.
Political Philosophy.
Social Theory.
Philosophy of the Social Sciences.
International Political Economy.
Social Philosophy.