The iron cage: An historical interpretation of Max Weber
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (792 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0006DXE3G |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 328 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Peter Oliphant said Biography shows how family interaction creates political action.. Max Weber redefined rationality in terms of goal-rationality ("Zweckrationalität") and value-rationality ("Wertrationalität"), showing how social structure controls the rationality that academics hope might really be scientific logic, but can never be logical. Academics like to wish that e
Arthur Mitzman is professor of modern European history at the University of Amsterdam in Holland. He has taught at Brooklyn College, Goddard College, the University of Rochester, and Simon Fraser University, and is the author of The Iron Cage: An Historical Interpretation of Max Weber.
“Mitzman’s book must take its place among the four or five best works in psycho-history that we now have. The title of the book refers to Weber’s statement in The Protestant Ethic that modern man’s life is determined by the iron cage of institutionalized asceticism. Lackey, American Sociological Review. The Iron Cage is a contribution to our knowledge of Max Weber and the history of his ideas. Mitzman accepts this proposition and analyzes Weber’s conscious and unconscious reaction to the encagement, tracing his quest for liberation…. Mitzman has combined a chronological interpretation of Weber’
In synthesizing Weber's life and thought, Arthur Mitzman has expanded and refined our understanding of this central twentieth-century figure. 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. 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. In his youth he was torn by irreconcilable tensions between the Bismarckian authoritarianism of his father and the ethical puritanism of his mother. 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. 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. 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. 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