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Author : Lawrence A. Scaff
Release : 1989
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 474/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Fleeing the Iron Cage by : Lawrence A. Scaff
Download or read book Fleeing the Iron Cage written by Lawrence A. Scaff. This book was released on 1989. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Bruce Douglass
Release : 2018-06-12
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Iron Cage Revisited by : R. Bruce Douglass
Download or read book The Iron Cage Revisited written by R. Bruce Douglass. This book was released on 2018-06-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the start of the twentieth century, when Germany, among other nations, was undergoing industrialization, Max Weber famously characterized modern life in words that have often been translated as "iron cage." During the industrial era, that image caught on and was often used by scholars to express concerns about the extent to which the actual character of modern life contradicted its emancipatory promise. But we are living in a different time now, when the conditions under which we live seem to be quite different from the ones that pertained in Weber's day. It is a time when, in some respects at least, life seems to be freer and more conducive to experimentation, which has led some people to conclude that our societies have escaped from Weber's "cage." But is that really true? This book challenges that notion, considering the consequences for our way of life of the triumph of neoliberalism as a political force.
Author : Lawrence A. Scaff
Release : 2011-01-30
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 795/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Max Weber in America by : Lawrence A. Scaff
Download or read book Max Weber in America written by Lawrence A. Scaff. This book was released on 2011-01-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawrence Scaff provides new details about Weber's visit to the United States---what he did, what he saw, whom he met and why and how these experiences profoundly influenced Weber's thought an immigration, capitalism, science and culture, Romanticism, race diversity, Protestantism, and modernity. Scaff traces Weber's impact on the development of the social sciences in the United States following his death in 1920, examining how We ber's ideas were interpreted, translated, and disseminated by American scholars such as Talcott Parsons and Frank Knight, and how the Weberian canon, codified in America, was reintroduced into Europe after World War II. --
Author : Michael Barnhart
Release : 2002
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 439/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Varieties of Ethical Reflection by : Michael Barnhart
Download or read book Varieties of Ethical Reflection written by Michael Barnhart. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Varieties of Ethical Reflection brings together new cultural and religious perspectives--drawn from non-Western, primarily Asian, philosophical sources--to globalize the contemporary discussion of theoretical and applied ethics. The work pushes ethics beyond a Western philosophical tradition tending toward universalism to infuse and broaden modern ethical theory with relativistic Asian ethical principles. The contributors introduce multicultural concepts and ideas from the Chinese Taoist, Confucian and Neo-Confucian, Indian and East Asian Buddhist, and Hindu traditions, focusing on such areas of moral controversy as the clash between women's rights and culture; universal human rights; abortion and euthanasia in a non-Western setting; and the standardization of medical practice across cultures.
Author : Julius Rubin
Release : 2000-03-09
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 242/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Other Side of Joy by : Julius Rubin
Download or read book The Other Side of Joy written by Julius Rubin. This book was released on 2000-03-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a case study of one pietist religious group, the Bruderhof. A Christian brotherhood founded on Anabaptist and evangelical pietist doctrine, they practice community of goods, seeking to emulate the vision of the Apostolic church and fulfill the ethic of brotherhood taught in the Sermon on the Mount. Rubin offers compelling accounts of the lives of Bruderhof apostates who foundered over issues of faith, and relates these crises to the central tenets of Bruderhof theology, their spirituality, and community life.
