The Iron Cage: An Historical Interpretation of Max WeberTransaction Publishers - 337 pagina's This major study of the father of modern sociology explores the intimate relationship between the events of Max Weber's personal history and the development of his thought. When it was first published in 1970, Paul Roazen described "The Iron Cage "as "an example of the history of ideas at its very best"; while Robert A. Nisbet said that "we learn more about Weber's life in this volume than from any other in the English language." Weber's life and work developed in reaction to the rigidities of familial and social structures in Imperial Germany. In his youth he was torn by irreconcilable tensions between the Bismarckian authoritarianism of his father and the ethical puritanism of his mother. These tensions led to a psychic crisis when, in his thirties, he expelled his father (who died soon thereafter) from his house. His reaction to the collapse of the European social order before and during World War I was no less personal and profound. It is the triumph of Professor Mitzman's approach that he convincingly demonstrates how the internalizing of these severe experiences led to Weber's pessimistic vision of the future as an "iron cage" and to such seminal ideas as the notion of charisma and the concept of the Protestant ethic and its connection with the spirit of capitalism. The author's thesis also serves as a vehicle for describing the social, political, and personal plight of the European bourgeois intellectual of Weber's generation. In synthesizing Weber's life and thought, Arthur Mitzman has expanded and refined our understanding of this central twentieth-century figure. As Lewis Coser writes in the preface, until now "there has been little attempt to bring together the work and the man, to show the ways in which Weber's cognitive intentions, his choice of problems, were linked with the details of his personal biography. Arthur Mitzman fills this gap brilliantly." |
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In the Fathers House 18861892 | 39 |
Assault on the Junker Hegemony | 75 |
1 WEBERS PERSPECTIVES ON THE EAST ELBIAN QUESTION 18921895 | 77 |
MOVES TOWARD INDEPENDENCE | 84 |
3 THE AUSBLICK OF 1892 | 94 |
4 THE REFERAT OF 1893 | 99 |
5 ALTHOFF WEBER SR AND MARRIAGE | 109 |
Asceticism and Mysticism | 192 |
1 FROM ASCETICISM TO MYSTICISM 19041910 | 194 |
2 RELIGION IN WIRTSCHAFT UND GESELLSCHAFT 191113 | 201 |
3 RELIGION RATIONALIZATION AND EROS 1916 | 209 |
4 SCIENCE MODERNITY MEANINGLESSNESS 1919 | 219 |
Aristocracy and Charisma in Webers Political Thought 19111919 | 231 |
Webers Retreat from Ascetic Rationalism 19071920 | 253 |
SOMBART THE GEORGEKREIS LUKACS | 256 |
6 FROM SOCIALISM TO LIBERAL IMPERIALISM | 119 |
Orestes and the Furies | 148 |
Estrangement and Eros 19031920 | 165 |
Recovery The Yoke of History | 167 |
THE NEW UNDERSTANDING OF WORLDLY ASCETICISM | 171 |
2 THE SOCIOLOGY OF REIFICATION AND THE PRAISE OF FOLLY | 176 |
Marx Nietzsche and the Spirits of Defiance | 181 |
2 THE PERSONAL EVOLUTION | 277 |
Weber and German History | 297 |
A SKETCH OF THE PERTINENT BIBLIOGRAPHY ON MAX WEBER | 307 |
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NOTES | 317 |
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