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  • Why Should We Still Read Max Weber?

    by Michael Symonds ...
    Series series Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
    This fresh study of Max Weber demonstrates the ongoing strength and importance of Weber’s understanding of our social existence.Original in its interpretation, Why Should We Still Read Max Weber? serves as a clear, accessible introduction to the social theory of one of the towering intellects of our age. The author guides the reader across the incomparable range of Weber’s analysis of modernity – ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • A Weberian Perspective on Home, Nature and Sport

    Disenchantment and Salvation

    by Michael Symonds ...
    Series series Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
    This book extends Max Weber’s theory of the value-spheres of modernity into wholly new areas, showing that the addition of home, nature and sport to Weber’s own list of five spheres (economic, scientific/intellectual, political/legal, erotic and aesthetic) yields original insights into these aspects of modernity and modernity itself. It shows how each of these new spheres is able to create its own ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Appeal of Art in Modernity

    by Michael Symonds ...
    Series series Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
    This book explores the place of art in the modern world, but instead of asking what art is, it begins with the question of art’s appeal in modernity. Why is the appellation ‘art’ so desired for movies, food, and fashion, for example? Why is there the assumption of esteem when someone calls themselves an ‘artist’? On the other hand, why is modern art so often seen as, at best, difficult and, at ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Max Weber's Theory of Modernity

    The Endless Pursuit of Meaning

    by Michael Symonds ...
    Series series Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
    This book illuminates an important dimension of the work of Max Weber. Weber’s theory of meaning and modernity is articulated through an understanding of his account of the way in which the pursuit of meaning in the modern world has been shaped by the loss of Western religion and how such pursuit gives sense to the phenomena of human suffering and death. Through a close, scholarly reading of Weber ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • Capitalism and Modern Social Theory

    An Analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    Giddens'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 sociology. The first three sections of the book, based on close textual examination of the original sources, contain separate treatments of each writer. The author demonstrates the internal coherence ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • How Much Globalization Can We Bear?

    Translated by Patrick Camiller ...
    by Rüdiger Safranski ...
    According to current deabtes, ’individualization’ has frequently been proposed as the conceptual counterpart to ’globalization’. It has often seemed that nothing would be left once these processes have fully unfolded, other than individual human atoms dispersed on a globe without any political, economic or cultural structures.Regardless of whether this description is based on any good and valid ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

  • A Companion to Ethics

    Edited by Peter Singer ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
    In this volume, some of today's most distinguished philosophers survey the whole field of ethics, from its origins, through the great ethical traditions, to theories of how we ought to live, arguments about specific ethical issues, and the nature of ethics itself. The book can be read straight through from beginning to end; yet the inclusion of a multi-layered index, coupled with a descriptive ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • The History of Western Ethics

    by Brian Duignan ...
    Series series The Britannica Guide to Ethics
    Ethics is the business of moral philosophy by which humans try to determine what behaviors are right and wrong; good and bad; noble and ignoble. Each person strives for rectitude as they understand it, while working within the accepted values of a larger group dynamic. The moral view of the larger group is developed and refined within a state of flux, and new circumstances are constantly arising ... Read more

    $33.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Education and Philosophy

    An Introduction

    by Ansgar Allen, Roy Goddard ...
    Philosophy is vital to the study of education, and a sound knowledge of different philosophical perspectives leads to a deeper engagement with the choices and commitments you make within your educational practice.This introductory text provides a core understanding of key moments in the history of Western philosophy. By introducing key transition points in that history, it investigates the plight ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Ethics

    Edited by Lawrence C. Becker, Charlotte B. Becker ...
    The editors, working with a team of 325 renowned authorities in the field of ethics, have revised, expanded and updated this classic encyclopedia. Along with the addition of 150 new entries, all of the original articles have been newly peer-reviewed and revised, bibliographies have been updated throughout, and the overall design of the work has been enhanced for easier access to cross-references ... Read more

    $1,050.00 USD

  • Weber and the Persistence of Religion

    Social Theory, Capitalism and the Sublime

    by Joseph W. H. Lough ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    There is an increasing interest in religion and belief and the diverse forms these take in the contemporary world. This timely book provides a unique analysis of these issues through a discussion of the work of Marx and Weber.Taking Max Weber’s interpretations of capitalism and religion as its point of departure, Weber and the Persistence of Religion re-examines a wide range of classical and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Hegel

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter Singer ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Many people regard Hegel's work as obscure and extremely difficult, yet his importance and influence are universally acknowledged. Professor Singer eliminates any excuse for remaining ignorant of the outlines of Hegel's philosophy by providing a broad discussion of his ideas and an account of his major works. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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