ABSTRACT
This book explores the latest thinking about Max Weber and his continuing influence on theoretical and empirical interests today. Bringing together the work of leading scholars from a variety of disciplines, it illuminates Weber’s thought in a number of key areas, including the methodology and philosophy of social science, comparative religion, the rationalization process, political sociology, the sociology of law, and the Protestant ethic and the development of capitalism.
An international collection that demonstrates the enduring importance of Weber’s thought to contemporary sociology and the discipline’s major concerns, The Routledge International Handbook on Max Weber will appeal to scholars in a range of disciplines, including sociology, social theory, politics, philosophy, law, and international relations.
Introduction: Max Weber Today Part I: The Life and Work 1. Weber Redivivus: Reconsidering the Life and Work 2. Max Weber: The Making of an Improbable Classic 3. Weber’s Theory of Meaning, Modernity and the Value-Spheres 4. Rationalities and Rationalization 5. The Fracture in Weber's Sociological Thought: The Formation of a Comparative World-Historical Perspective Part II: Methodology and Philosophy of the Social Sciences 6. Weber's Methodological Writings 7. Max Weber’s Work and Our Times: The Sociological Significance of Weber’s Methodological Insights 8. Academic Freedom Between Scientific Objectivity and Cultural Values 9. Modalities of Value Incommensurability: Associated Reflections Part III: The Protestant Ethic and the Development of Capitalism 10. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904-05/1920) 11. Weber's Early Writings on Law: Medieval Mercantile Law and Agrarian Structures in Roman Antiquity 12. The Monastery Door Reopens 13. ‘Weber’s Thesis’ and the Restoration of Capitalism in Baltic Countries 14. Capital and the Thrill of Domination Part IV: Comparative Religion 15. Max Weber on China and Capitalism 16. Weber’s Economic Ethos of the World Religions 17. Eastern Orthodox Christianity and the Other Spheres of Life in Max Weber’s Russia 18. World Religions, World Attitudes, and Civilizations: Max Weber's Comparative Sociology of Religion and the Analysis of Indian Religiosity 19. Divine Positive Law: Ancient Judaism and Western Legality Part V: Economy and Society and Rationalization Processes 20. Max Weber’s Economic Sociology 21. The Notion of Formal Rationality in the Writings of Max Weber and Other Foremost Sociologists 22. Capitalism, Contingency, and Economic Development 23. Max Weber’s Idea of Social Science in an Age of Formal Rationalization Part VI: Sociology of Law 24. Max Weber’s Sociology of Law, Then and Now 25. Max Weber’s Comparative and Historical Sociology of Law: The Developmental Conditions of Law 26. A Critical Reading of Max Weber on Law and Its Rationalization Part VII: Political Sociology 27. The Fate of Politics: The Vocation of the Political Educator 28. Weber’s Concept of Traditional Herrschaft Reexamined: Is it Ever Superseded? 29. Deus ex Machina: The Problem of Legal-Rational Domination 30. The Politics of Responsibility, Charismatic Communities, and Non-legitimate Domination 31. Living (Together) with the Consequences of Value Struggle 32. Max Weber on Parliamentarism and Democracy 33. Revolution and Revolutionary Subjectivity: Links Between Politics, Ethics, and Violence 34. Max Weber and the Historical Fate of Liberal-Democracy
