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Max Weber and 'The Protestant Ethic' - Peter Ghosh - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Max Weber and 'The Protestant Ethic' - Peter Ghosh - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Max Weber and The Protestant Ethic: Twin Histories presents an entirely new portrait of Max Weber, one of the most prestigious social theorists in recent history, using his most famous work, The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism, as its central point of reference. It offers an intellectual biography of Weber framed along historical lines -- something which has never been done before. It re-evaluates The Protestant Ethic -- a text surprisingly neglected by scholars -- supplying a missing intellectual and chronological centre to Weber''s life and work. Peter Ghosh suggests that The Protestant Ethic is the link which unites the earlier (pre-1900) and later (post-1910) phases of his career. He offers a series of fresh perspectives on Weber''s thought in various areas -- charisma, capitalism, law, politics, rationality, bourgeois life, and (not least) Weber''s unusual religious thinking, which was ''remote from god'' yet based on close dialogue with Christian theology. This approach produces a convincing view of Max Weber as a whole; while previously the sheer breadth of his intellectual interests has caused him to be read in a fragmentary way according to a series of specialized viewpoints, this volume seeks to put him back together again as a real individual.

DKK 697.00
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Max Weber and 'The Protestant Ethic' - Peter (fellow In History Ghosh - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Max Weber and 'The Protestant Ethic' - Peter (fellow In History Ghosh - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Max Weber and The Protestant Ethic: Twin Histories presents an entirely new portrait of Max Weber, one of the most prestigious social theorists in recent history, using his most famous work, The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism, as its central point of reference. It offers an intellectual biography of Weber framed along historical lines - something which has never been done before. It re-evaluates The Protestant Ethic -- a text surprisingly neglected by scholars -- supplying a missing intellectual and chronological centre to Weber''s life and work. Peter Ghosh suggests that The Protestant Ethic is the link which unites the earlier (pre-1900) and later (post-1910) phases of his career. He offers a series of fresh perspectives on Weber''s thought in various areas -- charisma, capitalism, law, politics, rationality, bourgeois life, and (not least) Weber''s unusual religious thinking, which was ''remote from god'' yet based on close dialogue with Christian theology. This approach produces a convincing view of Max Weber as a whole; while previously the sheer breadth of his intellectual interests has caused him to be read in a fragmentary way according to a series of specialized viewpoints, this volume seeks to put him back together again as a real individual.

DKK 364.00
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Hitler's First War - Thomas Weber - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Hitler's First War - Thomas Weber - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Hitler claimed that his years as a soldier in the First World War were the most formative years of his life. However, for the six decades since his death in the ruins of Berlin, Hitler''s time as a soldier on the Western Front has, remarkably, remained a blank spot. Until now, all that we knew about Hitler''s life in these years and the regiment in which he served came from his own account in Mein Kampf and the equally mythical accounts of his comrades.Hitler''s First War for the first time looks at what really happened to Private Hitler and the men of the Bavarian List Regiment of which he was a member. It is a radical revision of the period of Hitler''s life that is said to have made him. Through the stories of the veterans of the regiment - an officer who became Hitler''s personal adjutant in the 1930s but then offered himself to British intelligence, a soldier-turned-Concentration Camp Commander, Jewish veterans who fell victim to the Holocaust, or of veterans who simply returned to their lives in Bavaria - Thomas Weber presents a Private Hitler very different from the one portrayed in his own mythical account. Instead, we find a Hitler who was shunned by the frontline soldiers of his regiment as a ''rear area pig'' and who was still unsure of his political ideology even at the end of the war in 1918. In looking at the post-war lives of Hitler''s fellow veterans back in Bavaria, Thomas Weber also challenges the commonly accepted notion that the First World War was somehow a ''seminal catastrophe'' in twentieth century German history and even questions just how deep-seated Nazi ideology really was in its home state.

DKK 199.00
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Hitler's First War - Thomas Weber - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Hitler's First War - Thomas Weber - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Hitler claimed that his years as a soldier in the First World War were the most formative years of his life. However, for the six decades since his death in the ruins of Berlin, Hitler''s time as a soldier on the Western Front has, remarkably, remained a blank spot. Until now, all that we knew about Hitler''s life in these years and the regiment in which he served came from his own account in Mein Kampf and the equally mythical accounts of his comrades. Hitler''s First War for the first time looks at what really happened to Private Hitler and the men of the Bavarian List Regiment of which he was a member. It is a radical revision of the period of Hitler''s life that is said to have made him. Looking at the stories of his fellow regimental veterans - an officer who became Hitler''s personal adjutant in the 1930s but then offered himself to British intelligence, a soldier-turned-Concentration Camp Commander, Jewish veterans who fell victim to the Holocaust, and others who simply returned to their lives in Bavaria - Thomas Weber presents a Private Hitler very different from the one portrayed in his own self-mythologizing account. Instead, we find a man who was shunned by the frontline soldiers of his regiment as a ''rear area pig'' and who was still unsure of his political ideology even at the end of the war in 1918. In looking at the post-war lives of Hitler''s fellow veterans back in Bavaria, Thomas Weber also challenges the commonly accepted notion that the First World War was somehow a ''seminal catastrophe'' in twentieth century German history - and even questions just how deep-seated Nazi ideology really was in its home state.

DKK 159.00
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Reading Max Weber's Sociology of Law - Hubert Treiber - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Reading Max Weber's Sociology of Law - Hubert Treiber - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Reading Max Weber''s Sociology of Law serves both as an introduction and as a distillation of more than thirty years of reading and reflection on Weber''s scholarship. It provides a solid and comprehensive introduction to Weber and sets out his main concepts. Drawing on recent research in the history of law, this book also presents and critiques the process by which the law was rationalized and which Weber divided into four ideal-typical stages of development. Hubert Treiber provides commentary in a manner informed both historically and sociologically. The book explores Weber''s concepts in relation to the creation of laws between secular the religious powers. The book goes on to examine the codifications that were undertaken by Prussian absolutism and Napoleon in the Code Civil. It further covers Weber''s thoughts on antiformal legal tendencies, issues that are still prevalent in law today.This text is no mere reiteration of Weber''s concepts. The volume contextualizes Weber''s work in the light of current research, setting out to amend misinterpretations and misunderstandings that have prevailed from Weber''s original texts. Treiber''s introduction is much more than a simple guide through a complicated text. It is an important work in its own right and critical for any student of the sociology of law.

DKK 1060.00
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Becoming Hitler - Thomas (professor Of History And International Affairs Weber - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Becoming Hitler - Thomas (professor Of History And International Affairs Weber - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The fateful story of Adolf Hitler''s transformation from awkward, feckless loner to lethal, charismatic demagogue.The story of the making of Adolf Hitler that we are all familiar with is the one Hitler himself wove in his 1924 trial, and then expanded upon in Mein Kampf. It tells of his rapid emergence as National Socialist leader in 1919, and of how he successfully rallied most of Munich and the majority of Bavaria''s establishment to support the famous beer-hall putsch of 1923. It is an account which has largely been taken at face value for over ninety years. Yet, on closer examination, Hitler''s account of his experiences in the years immediately following the First World War turns out to be every bit as unreliable as his account of his experiences as a soldier during the war itself.In Becoming Hitler, Thomas Weber continues from where he left off in his previous book, Hitler''s First War, stripping away the layers of myth and fabrication in Hitler''s own tale to tell the real story of Hitler''s politicization and radicalization in post-First World War Munich. It is the gripping account of how an awkward and unemployed loner with virtually no recognizable leadership qualities and fluctuating political ideas turned into the charismatic, self-assured, virulently anti-Semitic leader with an all-or-nothing approach to politics with whom the world was soon to become tragically familiar. As Weber clearly shows, far from the picture of a fully-formed political leader which Hitler wanted to portray in Mein Kampf, his ideas and priorities were still very uncertain and largely undefined in early 1919 — and they continued to shift until 1923. It was the failed Ludendorff putsch of November 1923 - and the subsequent Ludendorff trial — which was to prove the making of Hitler. And he was not slow to spot the opportunity that it offered. As the movers and shakers of Munich''s political scene tried to blame everything on him in the course of the trial, Hitler was presented with a golden opportunity to place himself at the centre of attention, turning what had been the ''Ludendorff trial'' into the ''Hitler trial''. Henceforth, he would no longer be merely a local Bavarian political leader. From now on, he would present himself as a potential ''national saviour''. In the months after the trial, Hitler cemented this myth by writing Mein Kampf from his comfortable prison cell. His years of metamorphosis were now behind him. His years as Führer were soon to come.

DKK 152.00
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Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi - Thomas (professor Of History And International Affairs Weber - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi - Thomas (professor Of History And International Affairs Weber - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The story of the making of Adolf Hitler that we are all familiar with is the one Hitler himself wove in his 1924 trial, and then expanded upon in Mein Kampf. It tells of his rapid emergence as National Socialist leader in 1919, and of how he successfully rallied most of Munich and the majority of Bavaria''s establishment to support the famous beer-hall putsch of 1923. It is an account which has largely been taken at face value for over ninety years. Yet, on closer examination, Hitler''s account of his experiences in the years immediately following the First World War turns out to be every bit as unreliable as his account of his experiences as a soldier during the war itself.In Becoming Hitler, Thomas Weber continues from where he left off in his previous book, Hitler''s First War, stripping away the layers of myth and fabrication in Hitler''s own tale to tell the real story of Hitler''s politicization and radicalization in post-First World War Munich. It is the gripping account of how an awkward and unemployed loner with virtually no recognizable leadership qualities and fluctuating political ideas turned into the charismatic, self-assured, virulently anti-Semitic leader with an all-or-nothing approach to politics with whom the world was soon to become tragically familiar. As Weber clearly shows, far from the picture of a fully-formed political leader which Hitler wanted to portray in Mein Kampf, his ideas and priorities were still very uncertain and largely undefined in early 1919 -- and they continued to shift until 1923. It was the failed Ludendorff putsch of November 1923 - and the subsequent Ludendorff trial -- which was to prove the making of Hitler. And he was not slow to spot the opportunity that it offered. As the movers and shakers of Munich''s political scene tried to blame everything on him in the course of the trial, Hitler was presented with a golden opportunity to place himself at the centre of attention, turning what had been the ''Ludendorff trial'' into the ''Hitler trial''. Henceforth, he would no longer be merely a local Bavarian political leader. From now on, he would present himself as a potential ''national saviour''. In the months after the trial, Hitler cemented this myth by writing Mein Kampf from his comfortable prison cell. His years of metamorphosis were now behind him. His years as Führer were soon to come.

DKK 206.00
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Weber's Scorecard - Page - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Weber's Scorecard - Page - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book examines Max Weber''s understanding of bureaucracy by applying his ideas to the development of officialdom from the ninth century to the present in six territories: England, Sweden, France, Germany, Spain, and Hungary. Edward Page takes a broad view of bureaucracy that includes not only officials in important central or national institutions but also those providing goods and services locally. The ''scorecard'' is based on expected developments in four key areas of Weber''s analysis: the functional differentiation of tasks within government, professionalism, formalism, and monocracy. After discussing the character of officialdom in the ninth, twelfth, fifteenth, eighteenth, and twenty-first centuries, the book reveals that Weber''s scorecard has a mixed record, especially weak in its account of the development of monocracy and formalism. A final chapter discusses alternative conceptions of bureaucratic development and sets out an account based on understanding processes of routinization, institutional integration, and the instrumentalization of law.

DKK 1103.00
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Classical Social Theory - Ian (reader In Sociology Craib - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Classical Social Theory - Ian (reader In Sociology Craib - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Ian Craib compellingly shows the value of studying classic thinkers such as Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Simmel alongside the more popular contemporary questions. Providing an account of the key ideas of classical social theory, Dr Craib establishes their relevance today, their enduring significance, and their contribution to understanding contemporary problems.Written in a direct, personal style, Classical Social Theory''s thematic structure helps the reader compare the theorists systematically, and the book-by-book approach pays close attention to each thinker''s key texts, quoting the most important passages and analysing them in a clear, straightforward way.Other student-friendly features include:* biographical details and an elementary overview of the work of Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Simmel* Dramatis Personae with brief details of the life and thought of other relevant thinkers* Glossary covering important terms and phrases used in the textClassical Social Theory is an indispensable guide to the key thinkers in Sociology for anyone new to the subject.

DKK 560.00
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Aristocratic Power in the Spanish Monarchy - Samuel Weber - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Aristocratic Power in the Spanish Monarchy - Samuel Weber - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

In Italy, the powerful Borromeo family of Milan have long been held up as a rare example of paternalist aristocrats who withstood the temptations of self-enrichment so many of their peers succumbed to during the period of Spanish rule. Aristocratic Power in the Spanish Monarchy, the first major study of the family in the seventeenth century, challenges this myth and explains how it came about. Based on research in the previously inaccessible Borromeo private papers, the volume details the Borromeo''s increasing involvement with, and dependence on, the patronage of the kings of Spain. At the center of the analysis are the ways in which one family sought to rationalize and conceal this controversial relationship in the face of popular opposition to their methods of buying their way into political power. As their self-seeking behavior came under scrutiny, the clients of successive minister-favorites reinvented themselves as paternalist courtiers committed to delivering good governance for the subject populations under their rule.In doing so, the book offers new perspectives on broader questions: through a case study of three brothers from a representative noble family, it explains a major shift in aristocratic power in the seventeenth century, uncovering how dissimulation and subterfuge became central to the preservation of social privilege in an age of unprecedented threats to established power from below. Steeped in sociological and anthropological research on elite power, this captivating story from seventeenth-century Italy tells us much about the reproduction of social inequality in our own times.

DKK 795.00
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The State of the Political - Duncan Kelly - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The State of the Political - Duncan Kelly - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The State of the Political offers a broad-ranging re-interpretation of the understanding of politics and the state in the writings of three major German thinkers, Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Franz Neumann. It rejects the typical separation of these writers on the basis of their allegedly incompatible ideological positions, and suggests instead that once properly located in their historical context, the tendentious character of these interpretative boundaries becomes clear.The book interprets the conceptions of politics and the state in the writings of these three thinkers by means of an investigation of their adaptation and modification of particular German traditions of thinking about the state, or Staatsrechtslehre. Indeed, when the theoretical considerations of this state-legal theory are combined with their contemporary political criticism, a richer and more deeply textured account of the issues that engaged the attention of Weber, Schmitt and Neumann is possible. Thus, the broad range of subjects discussed in this book include parliamentarism and democracy in Germany, academic freedom and political economy, political representation, cultural criticism and patriotism, and the relationship between rationality, law, sovereignty and the constitution.The State of the Political is based on extensive consideration of primary and secondary materials, and is held together by a general focus on the importance to these authors of distilling an adequate account of the state and the political - largely because this could bolster their subsequent criticisms of contemporary politics. The study attempts to restore a sense of proportion to discussion of their writings, focusing on the extensive ideas that they shared rather than insisting on their necessary ideological separation. It is a detailed re-appraisal of a crucial moment in modern intellectual history, and highlights the profound importance of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt and Franz Neumann for the history of European ideas.

DKK 948.00
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Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity - Jairus Banaji - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity - Jairus Banaji - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The economy of the late antique Mediterranean is still largely seen through the prism of Weber''s influential essay of 1896. Rejecting that orthodoxy, Jairus Banaji argues that the late empire saw substantial economic and social change, propelled by the powerful stimulus of a stable gold coinage that circulated widely. In successive chapters Banaji adduces fresh evidence for the prosperity of the late Roman countryside, the expanding circulation of gold, the restructuring of agrarian élites, and the extensive use of paid labour, above all in the period spanning the fifth to seventh centuries. The papyrological evidence is scrutinized in detail to show that a key development entailed the rise of a new aristocracy whose estates were immune to the devastating fragmentation of partible inheritance, extensively irrigated, and responsive to market opportunities. A concluding chapter defines the more general issue raised by the aristocracy''s involvement in the monetary and business economy of the period. Exploiting a wide range of sources, Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity weaves together different strands of historiography (Weber, Mickwitz, papyrology, agrarian history) into a fascinating interpretation that challenges the minimalist orthodoxies about late antiquity and the ancient economy more generally.

DKK 724.00
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MYP Mathematics 1: Print and Enhanced Online Course Book Pack - David Weber - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

MYP Mathematics 1: Print and Enhanced Online Course Book Pack - David Weber - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Build solid mathematical understanding and develop key conceptual connections. The inquiry-based approach integrates the MYP key concepts, helping you shift to a concept-based classroom and cement mathematical comprehension. Fully comprehensive and matched to the Revised MYP to support achievement.Progress your learners into IB Diploma - fully comprehensive and matched to the MYP Next Chapter curriculumDevelop conceptual understanding in the best way for your learners - learn by mathematical unit or by key concept Drive active, critical exploration of mathematical principles - build rounded comprehension framed within the key and related concepts Develop meaningful cross-curricular connections that help learners recognize and manipulate mathematical ideas in other disciplines Support higher level thinking skills through an approach grounded in factual, conceptual and debatable questions Build a solid foundation of practical skills with extensive practice equipping learners to apply skills Fully prepare learners for the MYP eAssessmentThis pack includes one print Student Book and one online Student Book. The online Student Book will be available on Oxford Education Bookshelf until 2028. Access is facilitated via a unique code, which is sent in the mail. The code must be linked to an email address, creating a user account. Access may be transferred once to an additional user.

DKK 585.00
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MYP Mathematics 3: Print and Enhanced Online Course Book Pack - David Weber - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

MYP Mathematics 3: Print and Enhanced Online Course Book Pack - David Weber - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Build solid mathematical understanding and develop key conceptual connections. The inquiry-based approach integrates the MYP key concepts, helping you shift to a concept-based classroom and cement mathematical comprehension. Fully comprehensive and matched to the Revised MYP to support achievement.Progress your learners into IB Diploma - fully comprehensive and matched to the MYP Next Chapter curriculumDevelop conceptual understanding in the best way for your learners - learn by mathematical unit or by key concept Drive active, critical exploration of mathematical principles - build rounded comprehension framed within the key and related concepts Develop meaningful cross-curricular connections that help learners recognize and manipulate mathematical ideas in other disciplines Support higher level thinking skills through an approach grounded in factual, conceptual and debatable questions Build a solid foundation of practical skills with extensive practice equipping learners to apply skills Fully prepare learners for the MYP eAssessmentThis pack includes one print Student Book and one online Student Book. The online Student Book will be available on Oxford Education Bookshelf until 2028. Access is facilitated via a unique code, which is sent in the mail. The code must be linked to an email address, creating a user account. Access may be transferred once to a new user, once the initial user no longer requires access. You will need to contact your local Educational Consultant to arrange this.

DKK 629.00
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Emotional Choices - Robin Markwica - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Emotional Choices - Robin Markwica - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Why do states often refuse to yield to military threats from a more powerful actor, such as the United States? Why do they frequently prefer war to compliance? International Relations scholars generally employ the rational choice logic of consequences or the constructivist logic of appropriateness to explain this puzzling behavior. Max Weber, however, suggested a third logic of choice in his magnum opus Economy and Society: human decision making can also be motivated by emotions. Drawing on Weber and more recent scholarship in sociology and psychology, Robin Markwica introduces the logic of affect, or emotional choice theory, into the field of International Relations. The logic of affect posits that actors'' behavior is shaped by the dynamic interplay among their norms, identities, and five key emotions: fear, anger, hope, pride, and humiliation. Markwica puts forward a series of propositions that specify the affective conditions under which leaders are likely to accept or reject a coercer''s demands. To infer emotions and to examine their influence on decision making, he develops a methodological strategy combining sentiment analysis and an interpretive form of process tracing. He then applies the logic of affect to Nikita Khrushchev''s behavior during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 and Saddam Hussein''s decision making in the Gulf conflict in 1990-1 offering a novel explanation for why U.S. coercive diplomacy succeeded in one case but not in the other.

DKK 1085.00
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The German Historicist Tradition - Frederick C. Beiser - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The German Historicist Tradition - Frederick C. Beiser - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

This is the first full study in English of the German historicist tradition. Frederick C. Beiser surveys the major German thinkers on history from the middle of the eighteenth century until the early twentieth century, providing an introduction to each thinker and the main issues in interpreting and appraising his thought. The volume offers new interpretations of well-known philosophers such as Johann Gottfried Herder and Max Weber, and introduces others who are scarcely known at all, including J. A. Chladenius, Justus Möser, Heinrich Rickert, and Emil Lask. Beyond an exploration of the historical and intellectual context of each thinker, Beiser illuminates the sources and reasons for the movement of German historicism--one of the great revolutions in modern Western thought, and the source of our historical understanding of the human world.

DKK 475.00
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Class - - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Class - - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

In recent years, the concept of class has come under increasing scrutiny, as a means of explaining both the present and the past. The post-industrial class has superceded the manual working class, and new forms of industrial management have broken up more traditional hierarchies and outlooks. Furthermore, feminism has now brought into question the whole concept of a class identity.Can class viably explain the present? Did it ever provide an adequate explanation of the past? How did concepts of class develop? What is the language of class? A variety of writings are drawn upon here to suggest answers to these questions, to provide a balanced survey of thought on class, from Marx and Weber to the present day, and to look beyond this towards the very future of class.

DKK 445.00
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Ethnicity - - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Ethnicity - - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Although the term `ethnicity'' is recent, the sense of kinship, group solidarity, and common culture to which it refers is as old as the historical record. Ethnic communities have been present in every period and continent, and have played an important role in all societies. The sense of a common ethnicity remains a major focus of identification by individuals. Ethnic community and identity are often associated with conflict, particularly with political struggles in various parts of the world. However, there is no essential connection between ethnicity and conflict, and relations may in fact be peaceful and cooperative.This Oxford Reader includes extracts by all the major contributors to debates on ethnicity, including Weber, Brass, Hechter, and Horowitz. The articles offer explanations for the contentious nature of ethnicity, its worldwide effects, and the possible means for overcoming conflicts.

DKK 455.00
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Modern Social Theory - - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Modern Social Theory - - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the core topics, theories and debates in modern social theory. Fourteen chapters have been written by leading specialists in the field, providing up-to-date guidance on the full sweep of the modern sociological imagination, from the legacies of the classical figures of Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel and Parsons to the work of cutting-edge contemporary theorists. Separate chapters discuss functionalism and its critics, interpretive and interactionist theory, historical social theory, western Marxism, psychoanalytic social theory, structuralism and post-structuralism, structure and agency theory, feminist social theory, postmodernism and its critics, and theories about globalization.All chapters are supplied with questions for discussion, study boxes, guidance on further reading and useful website addresses. It is ideal for students of sociology and cultural studies pursuing foundational courses in the history and theory of social analysis, and is also accessible for the general reader.

DKK 590.00
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Wittgenstein and Natural Religion - Gordon Graham - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Wittgenstein and Natural Religion - Gordon Graham - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Gordon Graham presents a radically innovative study of Wittgenstein''s philosophy, in relation to the age-old impulse to connect ordinary human life with the transcendent reality of God. He offers an account of its relevance to the study of religion that is completely different to the standard version of ''Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion'' expounded by both its adherents and critics. Graham goes on to revitalize the philosophy of ''true religion'', an alternative, though not a rival, to the lively philosophical theology of Plantinga and Swinburne that currently dominates the subject. This alternative style of philosophy of religion has equally deep historical roots in the philosophical works of Spinoza, Hume, Schleiermacher, and Mill. At the same time, it is more easily connected to the psychological, sociological, and anthropological studies of William James, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Mircea Eliade, and Mary Douglas. Graham uses Wittgenstein''s conception of philosophy to argue in favour of the idea that ''true religion'' is to be understood as human participation in divine life.

DKK 727.00
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Punishment and Modern Society - David Garland - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Punishment and Modern Society - David Garland - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

This wide-ranging study provides the first comprehensive account of the forms, functions, and significance of punishment in modern society. Arguing that penal institutions are social and cultural artefacts as well as techniques of crime control, the book explores the ways in which penality interacts with a variety of social forces, including strategies of power, socio-economic structures, and cultural sensibilities.In constructing his multi-dimensional account, the author re-assesses the interpretations of punishment offered by the Durkheimian, Marxist, and Foucauldian traditions, and goes on to add a more explicitly cultural reading of his own, drawing upon recent work in cultural anthropology and the ideas of Weber and Elias. Throughout the study, the insights of social and historical theory are brought to bear upon the details of contemporary penal practice in a way which illustrates both the particularities of punishing and the general character of modern society.The resulting synthesis is a major achievement which will allow sociologists and historians to gain a better understanding of this complex social institution and will help policy-makers to develop more realistic and appropriate objectives in the field of penal policy.

DKK 1166.00
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The Re-enchantment of the World - Gordon Graham - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Re-enchantment of the World - Gordon Graham - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Re-enchantment of the World is a philosophical exploration of the role of art and religion as sources of meaning in an increasingly material world dominated by science. Gordon Graham takes as his starting point Max Weber''s idea that contemporary Western culture is marked by a ''disenchantment of the world'' -- the loss of spiritual value in the wake of religion''s decline and the triumph of the physical and biological sciences. Relating themes in Hegel, Nietzsche, Schleiermacher, Schopenhauer, and Gadamer to topics in contemporary philosophy of the arts, Graham explores the idea that art, now freed from its previous service to religion, has the potential to re-enchant the world. In so doing, he develops an argument that draws on the strengths of both ''analytical'' and ''continental'' traditions of philosophical reflection.The opening chapter examines ways in which human lives can be made meaningful as a background to the debates surrounding secularization and secularism. Subsequent chapters are devoted to painting, literature, music, architecture, and festival with special attention given to Surrealism, 19th-century fiction, James Joyce, the music of J. S. Bach and the operas of Wagner. Graham concludes that that only religion properly so called can ''enchant the world'', and that modern art''s ambition to do so fails.

DKK 768.00
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The Re-enchantment of the World - Gordon Graham - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Re-enchantment of the World - Gordon Graham - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Re-enchantment of the World is a philosophical exploration of the role of art and religion as sources of meaning in an increasingly material world dominated by science. Gordon Graham takes as his starting point Max Weber''s idea that contemporary Western culture is marked by a ''disenchantment of the world'' -- the loss of spiritual value in the wake of religion''s decline and the triumph of the physical and biological sciences. Relating themes in Hegel, Nietzsche, Schleiermacher, Schopenhauer, and Gadamer to topics in contemporary philosophy of the arts, Graham explores the idea that art, now freed from its previous service to religion, has the potential to re-enchant the world. In so doing, he develops an argument that draws on the strengths of both ''analytical'' and ''continental'' traditions of philosophical reflection. The opening chapter examines ways in which human lives can be made meaningful as a background to the debates surrounding secularization and secularism. Subsequent chapters are devoted to painting, literature, music, architecture, and festival with special attention given to Surrealism, 19th-century fiction, James Joyce, the music of J. S. Bach and the operas of Wagner. Graham concludes that that only religion properly so called can ''enchant the world'', and that modern art''s ambition to do so fails.

DKK 374.00
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Ernst Troeltsch and Liberal Theology - Mark Chapman - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Ernst Troeltsch and Liberal Theology - Mark Chapman - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

This is the first discussion in English of the ethical implications of German liberal theology in the early years of the twentieth century. It avoids pejorative interpretative categories (such as `culture protestantism''), seeking instead to understand a much neglected period on its own terms. The leading figure, Ernst Troeltsch (1865-1923), is treated as a `public theologian'', engaging at many different levels with his social and political context and trying to ensure that religion could continue to shape the future course of history. To understand his context he made use of the tools of the emergent discipline of sociology and also entered into dialogue with philosophers and historians. Troeltsch''s public theology is contrasted with other liberal models of theology, particularly those of the New Testament scholar Wilhelm Bousset and the systematic theologian Wilhelm Herrmann, who were far more reluctant to engage seriously with their context and as a result isolated religion from its wider social and intellectual setting. Troeltsch''s theological solution is also compared with Max Weber''s sociological response to the problems of modernity: Troeltsch''s ideas of cultural synthesis are seen as both constructive and critical and as having much to contribute to contemporary social and political theology.

DKK 586.00
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