Though they worked in very different disciplines, Max Weber and Thomas Mann were engaged from early in their careers in a remarkably similar enterprise converging on questions of personal identity and national self-understanding, and built upon conceptions drawn from a common intellectual and national heritage. Harvey Goldman's ambitious new book is about a part of that enterpr...(展开全部)

理查德·斯威德伯格现任美国康奈尔大学社会学系教授，专业领域是经济社会学。

While most people are familiar with THE PROTESTANT ETHIC AND THE SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM, few know that during the last decade of his life, Max Weber (1864-1920) also tried to develop a new way of analyzing economic phenomena. Sociologist Richard Swedberg here offers a critical presentation and the first major study of this fascinating part of Weber's work.

Max Weber's writings on the politics of Wilhelmine in Germany and the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917 are much less well known than his contributions to historical and theoretical sociology, yet they are essential to any overall assessment of his thought. Drawing on these writings, still mostly untranslated, David Beetham offers the most comprehensive account available in ...(展开全部)

Can politics be studied scientifically, and if so, how? Assuming it is impossible to justify values by human reason alone, social science has come to consider an unreflective relativism the only viable basis, not only for its own operations, but for liberal societies more generally. Although the experience of the sixties has made social scientists more sensitive to the importan...(展开全部)

Concentrating on Weber's engagement with political issues and their influence over his more theoretical concepts, Mommsen offers a critical analysis of Weber's notion of democracy, distinguishing its liberal and elitist features.

Most comprehensive study of Max Weber's thought Written by an historian with no religious or philosophical agenda to convey Takes the development of The Protestant Ethic and The "Spirit" of Capitalism as central point of reference Views Max Weber and his body of work as a whole, overcoming the usual fragmented and specialized viewpoint Max Weber and The Protestant Ethic: Twin H...(展开全部)

Museums have been active in shaping knowledge over the last six hundred years. Yet what is their function within today's society? At the present time when funding is becoming increasingly scarce, difficult questions are being asked about the justification of museums. Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge presents a critical nature of museums. Through the examination of case stud...(展开全部)