Max Weber's politics of civil society /
This book is an in-depth interpretation of Max Weber as a political theorist of civil society. On the one hand, it reads Weber's ideas from the perspective of modern political thought, rather than the modern social sciences; on the other, it offers a liberal assessment of this complex political...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004
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| Summary: | This book is an in-depth interpretation of Max Weber as a political theorist of civil society. On the one hand, it reads Weber's ideas from the perspective of modern political thought, rather than the modern social sciences; on the other, it offers a liberal assessment of this complex political thinker without attempting to apologize for his shortcomings. Through a fresh reading of Weber's religious, epistemological and political writings, the book shows Weber's concern with public citizenship in a modern mass democracy and civil society as its cultivating ground. Kim argues Weber's political thought, thus recast, was deeply informed by Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche and other German political thinkers and also reveals an affinity to the liberal-republican tradition best represented by Mill and Tocqueville. Kim has effectively resuscitated Weber as a political thinker for our time in which civic virtues and civil society have once again become one of the dominant issues. |
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| Item Description: | Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1997. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 214 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-209) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511211607 0511211600 9780521820578 052182057X 0511215185 9780511215186 0511216971 9780511216978 9780511490286 0511490283 1280516011 9781280516016 0511213379 9780511213373 1107145449 9781107145443 0511327293 9780511327292 9780521036566 0521036569 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
