The Postmodern Significance of Max Weber’s Legacy: Disenchanting Disenchantment
One of Max Weber's contemporaries described him as 'a child of the Enlightenment born too late' whose work is a 'vitriolic attack on religion'. Subsequent Weber scholarship has largely affirmed this valuation of Weber and characterized his scholarship as a manifestation of t...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2005.
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Edition: | 1st ed. 2005. |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403978875 |
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Summary: | One of Max Weber's contemporaries described him as 'a child of the Enlightenment born too late' whose work is a 'vitriolic attack on religion'. Subsequent Weber scholarship has largely affirmed this valuation of Weber and characterized his scholarship as a manifestation of the very disenchantment that Weber describes. In The Postmodern Significance of Max Weber's Legacy , Basit Koshul challenges this idea by showing Weber to be a postmodern thinker far ahead of his time. |
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Physical Description: | XII, 176 p. online resource. |
ISBN: | 9781403978875 |