Western rationalism-nature, of course, and genesis-was Max Weber's dominant historical interest. It was the grand theme of his two world historical studies, Economy and Society and The Economic Ethics of the World Religions. His studies of the relationships among economy, polity, law, and religion are lasting scholarly achievements. In this book Wolfgang Schluchter presents the most systematic analysis and elaboration ever attempted of Weber's sociology as a developmental history of the West.
Western rationalism-nature, of course, and genesis-was Max Weber's dominant historical interest. It was the grand theme of his two world historical st...
Shmuel N. Eisenstadt Wolfgang Schluchter Bjorn Wittrock
Today it is assumed that we understand contemporary nationalism and nation-building. Researchers rarely consider the very different traditions from which such state-building emerged. Instead, there is almost too much discussion of the "global village," with its supposed uniformity and inevitable trajectories. We need to view modernity as something other than a single condition with a preordained future. New visions of a modern civilization are emerging throughout the world, calliing for a far-reaching appraisal of the older visions of modernization.
Following Eisenstadt's and...
Today it is assumed that we understand contemporary nationalism and nation-building. Researchers rarely consider the very different traditions from...
Schluchters vergleichende Untersuchung einiger paradigmatischer Sichtweisen der industriegesellschaftlichen Entwicklung zeigt, daß im Übergang vom Frühkapitalismus zum Spätkapitalismus, von der noch relativ unentwickelten zur fortgeschrittenen Industriegesellschaft, nicht nur das Problem bürokratischer Herrschaft immer mehr ins Zentrum sozialphilosophischer und sozialwissenschaftlicher Betrachtung rückt, sondern daß sich dabei auch die Problemfassung zunehmend radikalisiert.
Schluchters vergleichende Untersuchung einiger paradigmatischer Sichtweisen der industriegesellschaftlichen Entwicklung zeigt, daß im Übergang vom F...
