The Oxford Handbook of Max Weber
Edited by Edith Hanke, Lawrence Scaff, and Sam Whimster
Abstract
Max Weber is one of the most important modern social theorists. Using his work as a point of departure, The Oxford Handbook of Max Weber investigates the Weberian legacy today, identifying the enduring problems and themes associated with his thought that have contemporary significance: the nature of modern capitalism, neoliberal global economic policy, nationalism, religion and secularization, threats to legality, the culture of modernity, bureaucratic rule and leadership, politics and ethics, the value of science, and power and inequality. These problems are global in scope, and the Weberian approach has been used to address them in very different societies. Thus, the handbook also features chapters on Europe, Turkey, Islam, Judaism, China, India, and international politics. The handbook emphasizes the use and application of Weber’s ideas. It offers a journey through the intellectual terrain that scholars continue to explore using the tools and perspectives of Weberian analysis.
Keywords:
Weberian social theory,
capitalism,
power,
stratification,
religion,
ethics,
law,
culture,
science,
global modernity
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Print Publication Date:
- Mar 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190679545
- Published online:
- Feb 2019
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190679545.001.0001
Editors
Edith Hanke,
editor
Edith Hanke is Generalredakteurin of the Max Weber Gesamtausgabe at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Munich. She worked on Leo Tolstoy and his significance for German cultural debate c. 1900. She edited Max Weber's "Sociology of Domination" for the Max Weber Gesamtausgabe (I/22-4 and I/23) and is currently engaged in research on Max Weber's world-wide proliferation and reception.
Lawrence Scaff,
editor
Lawrence Scaff is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Wayne State University, Detroit. He is the author of Fleeing the Iron Cage (University of California Press, 1989), Max Weber in America (Princeton University Press, 2011; German transl. Duncker & Humblot, 2013), and Weber and the Weberians (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
Sam Whimster,
editor
Sam Whimster is Professor Emeritus of Sociology in the Global Policy Institute, London, and is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences. He is the editor of the journal Max Weber Studies and the author of Understanding Weber (Routledge, 2007; Portuguese translation 2007). He edited, with Hans Henrik Bruun, Max Weber's Collected Methodological Writings (Routledge, 2012). He is co-author of Federal Central Banks (Forum Press, 2018).
