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Caesarism Charisma and Fate Historical Sources and Modern Resonances in the Work of Max Weber

Caesarism Charisma and Fate Historical Sources and Modern Resonances in the Work of Max Weber

How do writers marginalized by the authoritarian state in which they live intervene in the political process? They cannot do so directly because they are not politicians. Other modes of engagement are possible however. A writer may take up arms and become a revolutionary. Or as Max Weber did he may try to influence politics by playing the role of constitutional advisor or by seeking to shape the dominant language in which his contemporaries think. Weber sought to reconstitute the political and social vocabulary of his day. Part I of Caesarism Charisma and Fate examines a great writer's political passions and the linguistic creativity they generated. Specially it is an analysis of the manner in which Weber reshaped the nineteenth century idea of Caesarism a term traditionally associated with the authoritarian populism of Napoleon III and Bismarck and transmuted it into a concept that was either neutral or positive. The coup de grace of this alchemy was to make Caesarism reappear as charisma. In that transformation a highly contentious political concept suffused with disapproval and anxiety was naturalized into an ideal type of universal value-free sociology. Part II augments Weber's ideas for the modem age. A recurrent preoccupation of Weber's writings was human fate a condition that evokes the pathos of choice the political meaning of death and the formation of national solidarity. Peter Baehr marrying Weber and Durkheim fashions a new concept community of fate for sociological theory. Communities of fate-such as the Warsaw Ghetto or Hong Kong dealing with the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) crisis-are embattled social sites in which people face the prospect of collective death. They cohere because of an intense and broadly shared focus of attention on a common plight. Weber's work helps us grasp the nature of such communities the mechanisms that produce them and not least their dramatic consequences. | Caesarism Charisma and Fate Historical Sources and Modern Resonances in the Work of Max Weber

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A Weberian Analysis of Business Groups and Financial Markets Trade Relations in Taiwan and Korea and some Major Stock Exchanges

In Defense of Schreber Soul Murder and Psychiatry

Monasticism in Modern Times

Political Legitimacy Realism in Political Theory and Sociology

The Definitive Guide to Addiction Interventions A Collective Strategy

Embattled Reason Volume 2 Essays on Social Knowledge

The Gift Economy

Routledge International Handbook of Charisma

Administration Ethics and Democracy

Max Weber's Interpretive Sociology of Law

Novels and the Sociology of the Contemporary

Introduction to Sociology Concepts and Theories

David Martin and the Sociology of Religion

Colonial Slavery An Abridged Translation

Environmental Design Sourcebook Innovative Ideas for a Sustainable Built Environment

Environmental Design Sourcebook Innovative Ideas for a Sustainable Built Environment

How do we design in a climate emergency? A new social and ecological prerogative demands appropriate material choices a re-invention of construction and evolving building programmes that look at lifecycle embodied energy and energy use. Highly illustrated with practical information and simple explanations for design ideas this book is the perfect introduction to sustainable design for architecture students. It presents key concepts in relation to the embodied energy of construction material properties and environmental performance of buildings in an accessible way. In explaining the principles and technologies by which we heat cool moderate and mitigate it demystifies environmental design as a technical exercise and enables students to create sustainable buildings with impact. Keep this sourcebook with you. Features: Amphibious House (Baca Architects) Ashen Cabin (HANNAH) Bunhill 2 Energy Centre (Ramboll Cullinan Studio McGurk Architects and Colloide) Cork House (Matthew Barnett Howland Oliver Wilton and Dido Milne) Dymaxion House (Richard Buckminster Fuller) Eastgate Centre (Mick Pearce) Neuron Pod (Will Alsop – aLL Design and AKT II) Quik House (Adam Kalkin) and Tension Pavilion (StructureMode and Weber Industries). Covers: Acoustics bamboo construction biopolymer bioremediation CLT climatic envelope computational fluid dynamics earthen architecture fabric formwork hempcrete insulation mycelium biofabrication paper construction passive solar heating pneumatic structures solar geometry tensegrity structures thermal mass and more. | Environmental Design Sourcebook Innovative Ideas for a Sustainable Built Environment

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Social Change Theories in Motion Explaining the Past Understanding the Present Envisioning the Future

Social Change Theories in Motion Explaining the Past Understanding the Present Envisioning the Future

This book assesses how theorists explained processes of change set in motion by the rise of capitalism. It situates them in the milieu in which they wrote. They were never neutral observers standing outside the conditions they were trying to explain. Their arguments were responses to those circumstances and to the views of others commentators living and dead. Some repeated earlier views; others built on those perspectives; a few changed the way we think. While surveying earlier writers the author’s primary concerns are theorists who sought to explain industrialization imperialism and the consolidation of nation-states after 1840. Marx Durkheim and Weber still shape our understandings of the past present and future. Patterson focuses on explanations of the unsettled conditions that crystallized in the 1910s and still persist: the rise of socialist states anti-colonial movements prolonged economic crises and almost continuous war. After 1945 theorists in capitalist countries influenced by Cold War politics saw social change in terms of economic growth progress and modernization; their contemporaries elsewhere wrote about underdevelopment dependency or uneven development. In the 1980s theorists of postmodernity neoliberalism globalization innovations in communications technologies and post-socialism argued that they rendered earlier accounts insufficient. Others saw them as manifestations of a new imperialism capitalist accumulation on a global scale environmental crises and nationalist populism. | Social Change Theories in Motion Explaining the Past Understanding the Present Envisioning the Future

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Sociology and Military Studies Classical and Current Foundations

Sociology and Military Studies Classical and Current Foundations

This book examines the connection between sociology and the challenges faced by the modern military. Military sociology has received little attention in the broader academic world and is mostly focused on civil-military relations. This book seeks to address this gap and combines ideas theories and insights from sociology’s founding authors with each chapter focusing on a specific thinker. There are chapters on Max Weber Emile Durkheim Karl Marx Georg Simmel Jane Addams W. E. B. Du Bois Erving Goffman Michel Foucault Morris Janowitz Norbert Elias Cornelis Lammers Arlie Russell Hochschild Cynthia Enloe and Bruno Latour and each essay discusses their ideas and theories in relation to topics that are of concern in and around the military today. Military studies are taken in a broad sense here so the volume encompasses a wide range of issues including civil-military relations military-political affairs performance and outcomes of military operations and organizational arrangements including technology and the composition performance and well-being of personnel. The book intends to provide views and insights that will help the military to innovate their organizations and practices not necessarily in the usual functional way of innovating (i. e. faster more precise etc. ) but in a broader way. This book will be of great interest to students of sociology military studies civil-military relations war and conflict studies and IR in general. | Sociology and Military Studies Classical and Current Foundations

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American Security and the Global War on Terror

American Security and the Global War on Terror

This book delivers an interpretive framework for making sense of today’s geopolitical landscape and casts new light on the impact ideology and technology have had on American foreign policy and contemporary security practices. Edwin Daniel Jacob argues that America’s security practices in the Global War on Terror have been guided by an anachronistic Cold War logic that has subordinated strategy to tactics. Jacob shows that deep-rooted prejudices and presuppositions regarding American exceptionalism have had a disastrous impact on the policies of the United States not only in dealing with terrorism but also in seeking to impose American hegemony in the Middle East. Ineffectual security practices of dubious moral character from rendition and torture to preemptive strikes and nation building to drones and assassinations privilege exigency over ethics. Yet the result of this “post-strategic” approach to security where interchangeable tactics like these masquerade as strategy only increases insecurity. Jacob offers a fresh perspective on American foreign policy that links national security with human security in regional terms. This approach highlights the need for order predictability and stability—the cornerstone of political realism. Making use of insights derived from Machiavelli Hobbes Marx Weber Schmitt and Morgenthau this interdisciplinary work provides an overview of American foreign policy in the twenty-first century and speaks to crucial themes in the fields of history political science and sociology. | American Security and the Global War on Terror

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Main Currents in Sociological Thought 2 Volume Set

Main Currents in Sociological Thought 2 Volume Set

Raymond Aron's classic two-volume study of the sociological tradition is arguably the definitive work of its kind. More than a work of reconstruction Aron's study is at its deepest level an engagement with the question of modernity: What constitutes the essence of the modern order that having emerged in the eighteenth century still shapes our experience? With scrupulous fairness Aron examines the thought and arguments of the major social thinkers in this two volume set. Volume one explores three traditions: the French liberal school of political sociology represented by Montesquieu and Tocqueville; the Comtean tradition anticipating Durkheim in its its elevation of social unity and consensus; and the Marxists who posited the struggle between classes and placed their faith in historical necessity. Volume two explores the work of three figures who profoundly shaped sociology as it entered the twentieth century: Emile Durkheim who continued Auguste Comte's quest for a science of society and a scientific validation of morality; Vilfredo Pareto the Italian neo-Machiavellian who emphasized the oligarchic or elitist character of all societies; and the German sociologist Max Weber who reflected critically on the prospects for human freedom in an age marked by bureaucratization and rationalization. Both volumes of Main Currents of Sociological Thought are essential reading for any student of sociology political thought and political philosophy as well as any general reader interested in the ideas the thinkers who shaped modern social and political thought. | Main Currents in Sociological Thought 2 Volume Set

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Capitalism and its Critics Capitalism in Social and Political Theory

Capitalism and its Critics Capitalism in Social and Political Theory

Capitalism and its Critics offers an accessible account of major theories of capitalism from the industrial revolution to the present day. The book provides a comprehensive account of the economic and social thought of key theorists from Adam Smith and Karl Marx to David Harvey and Thomas Piketty. Capitalism has long been the subject of passionate debate and today such contestations are perhaps more timely than ever. For its advocates capitalism brings democracy and freedom and is the cornerstone of modernity and of progress. For its critics capitalism is based on the exploitation of labour and is responsible for the destruction of the environment as well as colonialism. Whether capitalism survives the century or whether an alternative social system emerges may very well determine the fate of humanity. Capitalism and its Critics gives a comprehensive critical analysis of the most important theorists of capitalism including Adam Smith Karl Marx Max Weber Joseph Schumpeter Karl Polanyi F. A. Hayek J. M. Keynes David Harvey and Thomas Piketty. The book discusses some of the main debates about capitalism and considers alternatives in the twenty-first century. The 12 chapters are loosely chronologically organised around the main approaches and historical phases in the history of capitalism. Central themes of the book are the ideas of capitalist crisis and of tensions between democracy and capitalism in the making of modernity. A highly readable informative and engaging text Capitalism and its Critics is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding capitalism and its alternatives. | Capitalism and its Critics Capitalism in Social and Political Theory

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Opera in Paris from the Empire to the Commune

Opera in Paris from the Empire to the Commune

Studies in the history of French nineteenth-century stage music have blossomed in the last decade encouraging a revision of the view of the primacy of Austro-German music during the period and rebalancing the scholarly field away from instrumental music (key to the Austro-German hegemony) and towards music for the stage. This change of emphasis is having an impact on the world of opera production with new productions of works not heard since the nineteenth century taking their place in the modern repertory. This awakening of enthusiasm has come at something of a price. Selling French opera as little more than an important precursor to Verdi or Wagner has entailed a focus on works produced exclusively for the Paris Opéra at the expense of the vast range of other types of stage music produced in the capital: opéra comique opérette comédie-vaudeville and mélodrame for example. The first part of this book therefore seeks to reintroduce a number of norms to the study of stage music in Paris: to re-establish contexts and conventions that still remain obscure. The second and third parts acknowledge Paris as an importer and exporter of opera and its focus moves towards the music of its closest neighbours the Italian-speaking states and of its most problematic partners the German-speaking states especially the music of Weber and Wagner. Prefaced by an introduction that develops the volume’s overriding intellectual drivers of cultural exchange genre and institution this collection brings together twelve of the author’s previously published articles and essays fully updated for this volume and translated into English for the first time. | Opera in Paris from the Empire to the Commune

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Sociological Theories of Health and Illness

Sociological Theories of Health and Illness

Sociological Theories of Health and Illness reviews the evolution of theory in medical sociology beginning with the field’s origins in medicine and extending to its present-day standing as a major sociological subdiscipline. Sociological theory has an especially important role in the practice of medical sociology because its theories distinguish the subdiscipline from virtually all other scientific fields engaged in the study of health and illness. The focus is on contemporary theory because it applies to contemporary conditions; however since theory in sociology is often grounded in historical precedents and classical foundations this material is likewise included as it relates to medical sociology today. This book focuses on the most commonly used sociological theories in the study of health and illness illustrating their utility in current examples of empirical research on a wide range of topics. The qualitative or quantitative research methods applicable to specific theories are also covered. Distinctions between macro and micro-level levels of analysis and the relevance of the agency-structure dichotomy inherent in all theories in sociology are discussed. Beginning with classical theory (Durkheim Weber and Marx) and the neglected founders (Gilman Martineau and DuBois) along with symbolic interaction (Mead Strauss) and labeling theory (Becker) and poststructuralism and postmodernism (Foucault) coverage is extended to contemporary medical sociology. Discussion of the stress process model (Pearlin) is followed by the social construction of gender and race and intersectionality theory (Collins) health lifestyle theory (Cockerham) life course theory (Elder) fundamental cause theory (Link and Phelan) and theories of the medical profession (Freidson) medicalization and biomedicalization (Conrad Clarke) and social capital (Bourdieu Putnam and Lin).

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