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Sociological Analysis Arun Sahay 9781032607375
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.49Originally published in 1972, this book is an important introduction to the analytical aspects of sociology. It analyses the various strands in 20th Century sociological thought, illustrating the... -
In Search of the Spirits of Capitalism: World Religions on Markets & Morality Govert J. Buijs 9783032011367
Booksplease Price: £100.19In this book, researchers of and representatives from various world religions contribute to the scholarship on the moral justification and future orientation of today's capitalism. The book is... -
Eric Voegelin's Political Readings: From the Ancient Greeks to Modern Times Bernat Torres (Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Spain) 9780367632816
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Eric Voegelin's Political Readings fills a critical void by providing an original approach to studying the work of Eric Voegelin, one of the major political philosophers of the twenty-first century... -
Legal Rights and the Institutional Imagination Hamish Ross 9781509979004
Booksplease Price: £90.57This book presents a contemporary perspective on legal rights centred on the longstanding will theory-interest theory debate. Starting with classical rights literature, central aspects of the debate... -
Max Weber: Readings And Commentary On Modernity Stephen Kalberg (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boston University) 9780631214908
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £34.87This unique volume gathers Weber's writings on a broad array of themes, from the nature of work, to the political culture of democracy, to the uniqueness of the West, to the character of the family... -
Romance and Reason: Ontological and Social Sources of Alienation in the Writings of Max Weber by Andrew M. Koch 9780739113080
Booksplease Price: £43.33In Romance and Reason Andrew Koch notes that in the annals of social research the jury is still out on Max Weber. It is for no other reason than Weber's enormous body of foundational work in... -
Sociological Analysis by Arun Sahay 9781032607290
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68Originally published in 1972, this book is an important introduction to the analytical aspects of sociology. It analyses the various strands in 20th Century sociological thought, illustrating the... -
Max Weber: Modernisation As Passive Revolution: A Gramscian Analysis: Historical Materialism, Volume 78 by Jan Rehmann
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £27.60Basing his research on Gramsci's theory of hegemony, Jan Rehmann provides a comprehensive socio-analysis of Max Weber's political and intellectual position in the ideological network of his time. Max... -
Romance and Reason: Ontological and Social Sources of Alienation in the Writings of Max Weber by Andrew M. Koch 9780739111017
Booksplease Price: £96.35In Romance and Reason Andrew Koch notes that in the annals of social research the jury is still out on Max Weber. It is for no other reason than Weber's enormous body of foundational work in... -
Politics and Sociology in the Thought of Max Weber Anthony Giddens (London School of Economics and Political Science) 9780745670966
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.79This book provides an interpretation of one of the key aspects of Max Weber's work: the relationship between his political and sociological writings. Weber's sociological studies have often been... -
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The Vocation Lectures: "Science as a Vocation"; "Politics as a Vocation" by Max Weber 9780872206663
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £29.74Originally published separately, Weber's Science as a Vocation and Politics as a Vocation stand as the classic formulations of his positions on two related subjects that go to the heart of his... -
Capitalism and Modern Social Theory: An Analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber by Anthony Giddens 9780521097857
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £20.31Giddens's analysis of the writings of Marx, Durkheim and Weber has become the classic text for any student seeking to understand the three thinkers who established the basic framework of contemporary... -
Caesarism, Charisma and Fate: Historical Sources and Modern Resonances in the Work of Max Weber Peter Baehr 9781138507869
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63How 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... -
The Methodology of Political Economy: Studying the Global Rural-Urban Matrix by J. I. Hans Bakker 9781498521871
Booksplease Price: £112.43The importance of the global rural-urban matrix is often overlooked due to urban-normativity. But sometimes agrarian populism and a pastoral rural imaginary result in the equally fallacy of a... -
Science, Values and Politics in Max Weber's Methodology: New Expanded Edition Hans Henrik Bruun 9781138266872
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59First published in 1972, this book on Weber's methodological writings is today regarded as a modern classic in its field. In this new expanded edition, the author has revised and updated the original... -
The Protestant Ethic Turns 100: Essays on the Centenary of the Weber Thesis by William H. Swatos 9781594510991
RRP: £61.99Booksplease Price: £57.53Marking the centennial anniversary of the first publication of Max Weber's "Protestant Ethic" essays, a group of internationally recognized Weber scholars review the significance of Weber's essays by... -
Max Weber's Comparative-Historical Sociology Today: Major Themes, Mode of Causal Analysis, and Applications by Stephen Kalberg 9781409432234
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Bringing together the author's major scholarly work on Weber over the last thirty years, Max Weber's Comparative-Historical Sociology Today addresses major themes in Weber's thought, whilst also... -
Culture and Predictability of Law: A Justification from a Modern Historical Perspective Luiz Guilherme Marinoni 9783031871603
Booksplease Price: £51.20This book aims to identify the sociological reasons that resulted in the perceived lack of authority of precedents in civil law systems, starting from the premise that common law systems rely on... -
The Political Theology of Hannah Arendt: Augustine and the Invention of Modernity by Michael Weinman 9781399525541
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £73.97The Political Theology of Hannah Arendt clarifies how to understand Arendt's arguments about freedom, collective action, and the problem of evil as political theological, rather than political... -
A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Management Theory by Todd Bridgman
Booksplease Price: £18.99Conceived by Chris Grey, the Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap series offers an antidote to conventional textbooks. Each book takes a core area of the curriculum and turns it on its... -
“In the Face of Barbarism”: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Ethics of Everyday Life by Associate Professor Dallas Gingles 9780567718372
Booksplease Price: £85.65Written by a diverse and global group of scholars with expertise in Bonhoeffer's theology and ethics, this volume demonstrates and interrogates Bonhoeffer's focus on and contribution to the ethics... -
Reclaiming the Sociological Classics: The State of the Scholarship Charles Camic (University of Wisconsin) 9781577180319
RRP: £47.95Booksplease Price: £44.76This volume is a collection of original essays by sociologists and intellectual historians who have been leading figures in recent scholarship on the classical sociological theorists.About the... -
The Spirit vs. the Souls: Max Weber, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the Politics of Scholarship by Christopher A. Mcauley
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.04Despite the extensive scholarship on Max Weber (1864-1920) and W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963), very little of it examines the contact between the two founding figures of Western sociology. Drawing on... -
Charis and Charisma: Max Weber and the Aesthetic-Philosophical Discourse on Grace from Winckelmann to Nietzsche James Rasmussen 9783111562537
RRP: £107.00Booksplease Price: £69.18This project pursues a genealogical study of the concept of charisma in its Weberian form. It addresses the question of what conceptual routes led from ancient Greek and Christian understandings of... -
The Quest for Liberation: Philosophy and the Making of World Culture in China and the West Chunjie Zhang 9781531510367
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Contemporary debate on cosmopolitanism routinely refers to Immanuel Kant as its intellectual origin. A group of Chinese and German-speaking thinkers in the early twentieth century, however, used... -
Main Currents in Sociological Thought: Volume Two: Durkheim, Pareto, Weber by Raymond Aron 9781541607293
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.71The second volume of the landmark study, examining the work of sociology's defining thinkers from the turn of the nineteenth century to the interwar periodMain Currents in Sociological Thought... -
Reclaiming the Sociological Classics: The State of the Scholarship by Charles Camic 9781577180302
RRP: £115.95Booksplease Price: £108.09This volume is a collection of original essays by sociologists and intellectual historians who have been leading figures in recent scholarship on the classical sociological theorists.About the... -
The Vocation of Reason: Studies in Critical Theory and Social Science in the Age of Max Weber by Hall Thomas Wilson 9789004136311
Booksplease Price: £71.59This book addresses, and at the same time reflects, the impact of Max Weber on both the social sciences and on critical theory's critique of the social sciences. Weber's conception of 'vocation' is a... -
The Quest for Liberation: Philosophy and the Making of World Culture in China and the West Chunjie Zhang 9781531510350
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.52Contemporary debate on cosmopolitanism routinely refers to Immanuel Kant as its intellectual origin. A group of Chinese and German-speaking thinkers in the early twentieth century, however, used... -
Main Currents in Sociological Thought: Volume One: Montesquieu, Comte, Marx, de Tocqueville: The Sociologists and the Revolution of 1848 by Raymond Aron 9781541607309
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.55The first volume of the landmark study, tracing the emergence and formation of sociological thought from the French liberal school to the Marxists Main Currents in Sociological Thought remains a... -
Max Weber’s Sociology: From "the Protestant Ethic Thesis" and the American Political Culture to a Sociology of Civilizations by Stephen Kalberg 9781032631806
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.49This volume outlines Max Weber's comparative-historical sociology of "interpretive understanding" (verstehen) in a manner that clarifies his complex mode of analysis and multi-causal focus... -
David Martin and the Sociology of Religion by Hans Joas
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08David Martin is a pioneer of a political sociology of religion that integrates a combined analysis of nationalism and political religions with the history of religion. He was one of the first critics... -
Theories of Tyranny: From Plato to Arendt by Roger Boesche
Booksplease Price: £53.19This book explores a little-noticed tradition in the history of European political thought. From Plato to Aristotle to Tacitus and Machiavelli, and from Tocqueville to Max Weber and Hannah Arendt,... -
Thrills and Chills: Demagoguery, Charisma and Freedom with Max Weber, Emile Durkheim and J.J. Rousseau by Roy G Berger 9780987736376
Booksplease Price: £6.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987736376Author Roy G BergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint < -
The Possible Form of an Interlocution: W. E. B. Du Bois and Max Weber in Correspondence Nahum Dimitri Chandler 9781478029144
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £67.54In The Possible Form of an Interlocution, Nahum Dimitri Chandler provides an epistemological and theoretical elaboration of the correspondence between W. E. B. Du Bois and Max Weber in 1904 and 1905... -
The Possible Form of an Interlocution: W. E. B. Du Bois and Max Weber in Correspondence Nahum Dimitri Chandler 9781478032489
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.90In The Possible Form of an Interlocution, Nahum Dimitri Chandler provides an epistemological and theoretical elaboration of the correspondence between W. E. B. Du Bois and Max Weber in 1904 and 1905... -
The Legitimacy of Modern Democracy: A Study on the Political Thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen by Pedro T. Magalhaes
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24By re-examining the political thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen, this book offers a reflection on the nature of modern democracy and the question of its legitimacy. Pedro T... -
Puritanism and the Pursuit of Happiness - The Ministry and Theology of Ralph Venning, c.1621-1674 by S. Bryn Roberts
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £82.05Reveals a much neglected strand of puritan theology which emphasised the importance of inner happiness and personal piety. The traditional view of puritans is that they were killjoys - serious,... -
Fault, Responsibility, and Administrative Law in Late Babylonian Legal Texts by F. Rachel Magdalene
Booksplease Price: £112.31This book presents a reassessment of the governmental systems of the Late Babylonian period-specifically those of the Neo-Babylonian and early Persian empires-and provides evidence demonstrating that... -
The State of the Political: Conceptions of Politics and the State in the Thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Franz Neumann by Duncan Kelly 9780197262870
Booksplease Price: £82.60The 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...