Home
:
Book details
:
Book description
Description of
Max Weber's Sociology of Civilizations: A Reconstruction: A Reconstruction (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)
This volume examines civilizations through the broad lens articulated by the works of Max Weber. In focusing upon his comparative-historical mode of analysis and his causal explanations for the sources, contours, and trajectories of civilizations, this study reconstructs Webers sociology in a manner that provides clear guidelines to researchers seeking to investigate civilizations systematically. Through detailed interpretations of the Wests unique development from Antiquity to the Modern era, precise comparisons to the long-range and singular pathways taken by China and India, and careful demarcations of the "particular rationalisms" of several civilizations, the author addresses Webers powerful model-building on the one hand and his opposition to organic holism and structural presuppositions on the other hand. Read more