Intellectual work and the spirit of capitalism : Weber's calling / Thomas Kemple.
"This book treats three lectures that Weber gave in the last decade of his career as a podium or prism from which to approach his best-known treatises and essays on the rise of occidental capitalism. His remarks on 'Technology and Culture' (1910) and his famous 'Science as a Voca...
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Table of Contents:
- Introductory Remarks: Sociological Allegory in the Age of Weber
- PART I: FAUST'S STUDY
- 1. Polemical Arts of Speaking Sociologically: Weber's Lectern
- 2. Casuistic Disciplines of Capitalist Science: Weber's Bifocals
- 3. Narrative Conventions of Political Discourse: Weber's Prism
- PART II: TOLSTOY'S KEYNOTE
- 4. Cosmopolitan Ethics of War and Peace: Weber's Machine
- 5. Resurrecting Charisma: Weber's Pendulum
- Interim Reflections (In Lieu of a Conclusion): Intellectual Work and the Spirit of Capitalism.