Max Weber : a biography
Radkau, Joachim, 1943-2011
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Radkau brings out, in a way that no one has ever done before, the intimate interrelations between Weber's thought and his life experience. He presents detailed revelations about the great enigmas of Weber's life: his suffering and erotic experiences, his fears and his desires, his creative power and his methods of work as well as his religious experience and his relation to nature and to death.--From publisher description.
Main title:
Max Weber : a biography / Joachim Radkau ; translated by Patrick Camiller.
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Edition:
English ed.
Imprint:
Cambridge, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Polity, c2011.
Collation:
xix, 683 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
"First published in German as Max Weber, Carl Hanser Verlag Mùˆnchen Wien, 2005"--T.p. verso.Includes bibliographical references (p. [572]-665) and index.
Contents:
pt. 1. The violation of nature.Great mother and harsh nature : a precocious youth on the margins of BerlinMax and Minimax : blood brothers and drinking companions--surly fraternity as a primary social experienceFrom father's boy to mother's boy : a comradely marriage and the day of judgment for the fatherAntaeus, antiquity and agrarians : the unshackling of creativity through the earthing of cultureEruptions form the ice : creativity as natural catastropheA 'gospel of struggle' and Old German corpulence : from lifestyle crisis through creativity crisis to existential crisispt. 2. Nature's revenge.The demons : the wildness of nature and the riddle of sexualityA 'sort of spiritualistic construction of the modern economy' : the Protestant ethic and the vain quest for redemption through the spiritSouth-North-West-East : changing attempts at spiritual conquest of the worldFrom the 'Essay of sighs' to 'Psychophysics' : the seven-year fight with naturalism against naturalismFrom the Eranos circle to the 'erotic movement ': new roots and new milieuxMax Weber's love-hate for the Germanspt. 3. Salvation and illumination.Value-free science, love and musicCharismaThe naturalness of community--the disguised naturalism in economy and societyFrom Deborah's Song of triumph to the 'Titans of the holy curse' : pacifist herdsman, prophets and pariahs--the IsraelitesWorld war and flight from the worldGreat speeches, the great love and deathEpilogue : Powerplay and the wrangling over Max Weber's spirit.
ISBN:
97807456414850745641482
Dewey class:
301.092
Language:
EnglishGerman
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2246279
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