Max Weber's Politics of Civil Society
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- Author: Sung Ho Kim, Yonsei University, Seoul
- Date Published: May 2007
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Although well-known as the founder of the modern social sciences, Max Weber is less frequently recognized for his contributions to political thought. This book is an original interpretation of his thinking. Sung Ho Kim argues that Weber, one of the great political theorists of modern times, was deeply influenced by some of the most critical questions in modern political thought, especially the question of public citizenship in a mass democracy and civil society as its cultivating ground.
Read more- Highlights relevance of Weber's political thought for modern times
- An interesting perspective of modern political thought
- Reconstructs Weber's works along an alternative thematic axis
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"Kim's book is an erudite, thoroughly researched, and insightful rereading of Weber. It is also highly relevant to contemporary democratic theory." Perspectives on Political Theory
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- Date Published: May 2007
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521036566
- length: 228 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 153 x 8 mm
- weight: 0.349kg
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Part I. Of 'Sect Man': The Modern Self and Civil Society in Max Weber:
1. Agency, citizenship and civil society
2. Reading Weber: between politics and science
3. In search of the Protestant ethic thesis
4. Outline of the argument
Part II. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Individualism:
5. Introduction: 'the last of our heroisms'
6. 'A rationalization toward an irrational conduct of life'
7. Calling: sanctification and regimentation of everyday life
8. Predestination: objectification of the world and disempowerment of the self
9. Empowering the individual agency: self-mastery and discipline
10. Conclusion: value, rationality and freedom
Part III. The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Civil Society:
11. Introduction: sociability of the Puritan Berufsmensch
12. Gemeinschaft, Gesellschaft and Amerikanismus
13. Modes of sociability: America versus Europe
14. Sect contra church: particularism and voluntarism
15. Secularization of charisma: from sect to status group and bureaucracy
16. Conclusion: The public and the private
Part IV. Politics, Science, Ethics:
17. Introduction: Götterdämmerung
18. Disenchantment and reenchantment
19. Conviction, responsibility and decision
20. Practice of the self I: realpolitik
21. Practice of the self II: ideal type
22. Conclusion: modernity, conscience and duty
Part V. Liberalism, Nationalism and Civil Society:
23. Introduction: liberalism and nationalism
24. National identities, nation-states and the political
25. Nationalism, citizenship and personality
26. Politics of the classes: refeudalization and embourgeoisement
27. Politics of checks and balances: corporatism and parliamentarianism
28. Conclusion: 'the school of men'
Part VI. Max Weber's Politics of Civil Society:
29. Statecraft and soulcraft in Max Weber
30. Purpose, contestation and the political
31. Bowling alone
References
Index.
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