Max Weber: The Lawyer as Social Thinker

ISBN-13: 9780415114523 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 216 str.

Stephen P. Turner; David Turner

Opis

Max Weber: The Lawyer as Social Thinker aims to relate the categories of Weber's social thinking to the intellectual context of legal thinking and theory in which he was educated. Its interpretive aim is to show how knowledge of these relations illuminates our understanding of Weber's own intentions. By comparing Weber's social theory of the teleological kind favoured by his contemporaries, which sought to identify social purposes and their effects and realization in history, but rather to radically undermine the project of teleological social theory by replacing categories of description that are amenable to or dependent upon teleological interpretations with categories that are specifically constructed to strip away teleology. The book identifies some of the key sources of Weber's thought in the legal tradition, notably the jurisprudential theorist Rudolph von Ihering, who was a classic teleological thinker, influenced by Bentham as well as by neo-Kantianism. Weber's famous definition of social action should be adequate on the level of meaning and adequate on the level of cause is shown to be a variant of Ihering's purposive definition of social action.

Spis treści

Preface -- 1 INTRODUCTION 1 -- 2 COMMON STARTING POINTS: THE WORLD CREATED BY PURPOSE AND THE CONCEPT OF ACTION -- 3 INTERESTS AND IDEALS -- 4 THE COMMANDS OF MORALI1Y -- 5 AUTHORI1Y: STATES, CHARISMA, AND RECHT -- 6 CAUSE -- 7 ABSTRACTION -- 8 EPILOGUE -- APPENDIX: Webers classification of action -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

O autorze

Stephen P. Turner is Graduate Research Professor of Philosophy, University of South Florida. Regis A. Factor is Professor of Government and International Affairs. University of South Florida.