{"product_id":"max-webers-politics-of-civil-society-hardback-9780521820578","title":"Max Weber's Politics of Civil Society (Hardback) 9780521820578","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMax Weber's Politics of Civil Society\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn in-depth interpretation of Max Weber as a political theorist of civil society.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSung Ho Kim (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521820578, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 7 June 2004\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e228 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.51 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Sung Ho Kim has produced an outstanding revision of Max Weber's political thought within the context of Weber's work on the sociology of religion.\"  \u003cbr\u003eLeonard Seabrooke, The Review of Politics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book is an in-depth interpretation of Max Weber as a political theorist of civil society. On the one hand, it reads Weber's ideas from the perspective of modern political thought, rather than the modern social sciences; on the other, it offers a liberal assessment of this complex political thinker without attempting to apologize for his shortcomings. Through an alternative reading of Weber's religious, epistemological and political writings, the book shows Weber's concern with public citizenship in a modern mass democracy and civil society as its cultivating ground. Kim argues Weber's political thought, thus recast, was deeply informed by Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche and other German political thinkers and also reveals an affinity to the liberal-republican tradition best represented by Mill and Tocqueville. Kim has effectively resuscitated Weber as a political thinker for our time in which civic virtues and civil society have once again become one of the dominant issues.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Of 'Sect Man': The Modern Self and Civil Society in Max Weber: 1. Agency, citizenship and civil society\u003cbr\u003e 2. Reading Weber: between politics and science\u003cbr\u003e 3. In search of the Protestant ethic thesis\u003cbr\u003e 4. Outline of the argument\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Individualism: 5. Introduction: 'the last of our heroisms'\u003cbr\u003e 6. 'A rationalization toward an irrational conduct of life'\u003cbr\u003e 7. Calling: sanctification and regimentation of everyday life\u003cbr\u003e 8. Predestination: objectification of the world and disempowerment of the self\u003cbr\u003e 9. Empowering the individual agency: self-mastery and discipline\u003cbr\u003e 10. Conclusion: value, rationality and freedom\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Civil Society: 11. Introduction: sociability of the Puritan Berufsmensch\u003cbr\u003e 12. Gemeinschaft, Gesellschaft and Amerikanismus\u003cbr\u003e 13. Modes of sociability: America versus Europe\u003cbr\u003e 14. Sect contra church: particularism and voluntarism\u003cbr\u003e 15. Secularization of charisma: from sect to status group and bureaucracy\u003cbr\u003e 16. Conclusion: The public and the private\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Politics, Science, Ethics: 17. Introduction: Götterdämmerung\u003cbr\u003e 18. Disenchantment and reenchantment\u003cbr\u003e 19. Conviction, responsibility and decision\u003cbr\u003e 20. Practice of the self I: realpolitik\u003cbr\u003e 21. Practice of the self II: ideal type\u003cbr\u003e 22. Conclusion: modernity, conscience and duty\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Liberalism, Nationalism and Civil Society: 23. Introduction: liberalism and nationalism\u003cbr\u003e 24. National identities, nation-states and the political\u003cbr\u003e 25. Nationalism, citizenship and personality\u003cbr\u003e 26. Politics of the classes: refeudalization and embourgeoisement\u003cbr\u003e 27. Politics of checks and balances: corporatism and parliamentarianism\u003cbr\u003e 28. Conclusion: 'the school of men'\u003cbr\u003e Part VI. Max Weber's Politics of Civil Society: 29. Statecraft and soulcraft in Max Weber\u003cbr\u003e 30. Purpose, contestation and the political\u003cbr\u003e 31. Bowling alone\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Political science \u0026amp; theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political science \u0026amp; theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20science%20\u0026amp;%20theory%20%5BJPA%5D%22\"\u003eJPA\u003c\/a\u003e], Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e], History of ideas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of ideas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20ideas%20%5BJFCX%5D%22\"\u003eJFCX\u003c\/a\u003e], History of Western philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of Western philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20Western%20philosophy%20%5BHPC%5D%22\"\u003eHPC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265163677976,"sku":"9780521820578","price":95.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521820578i.jpg?v=1692020143","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/max-webers-politics-of-civil-society-hardback-9780521820578","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}