acosmic
Acosmic Love
ascetic
Ascetic Rationalism
authority structures sociology
Baumgartens
bourgeois society analysis
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charisma concept
East Elbian
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Eros
Father's House
Freiburg Inaugural Address
German intellectual history
gesellschaft
Late
love
marianne
Marianne Schnitger
max
Max Webers
Patrimonial Prince
personal biography influence on social thought
Politik Als Beruf
Postwar
Protestant Ethic
Psy-
Puritan Asceticism
puritanism and modernity
rationalism
sociological theory
Superimposed
und
Verein Fur Sozialpolitik
Violated
weber
Webers
wirtschaft
Wirtschaft Und
Wirtschaft Und Gesellschaft
Wolfgang Mommsen
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138536401
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jul 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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. 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. 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. In his youth he was torn by irreconcilable tensions between the Bismarckian authoritarianism of his father and the ethical puritanism of his mother. These tensions led to a psychic crisis when, in his thirties, he expelled his father (who died soon thereafter) from his house. His reaction to the collapse of the European social order before and during World War I was no less personal and profound. 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. 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.In synthesizing Weber's life and thought, Arthur Mitzman has expanded and refined our understanding of this central twentieth-century figure. 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 ways in which Weber's cognitive intentions, his choice of problems, were linked with the details of his personal biography. Arthur Mitzman fills this gap brilliantly."
