Intellectual work and the spirit of capitalism : Weber's calling / Thomas Kemple, Department of Soci...
Intellectual work and the spirit of capitalism : Weber's calling / Thomas Kemple, Department of Soci...
Intellectual work and the spirit of capitalism : Weber's calling / Thomas Kemple, Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia, Canada.
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New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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G 2014/4930
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English
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xiv, 266 pages ; 23 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Introductory Remarks: Sociological Allegory in the Age of Weber -- Part I. Faust's Study: 1. Polemical Arts of Speaking Sociologically: Weber's Lectern; 2. Casuistic Disciplines of Capitalist Science: Weber's Bifocals; 3. Narrative Conventions of Political Discourse: Weber's Prism -- Part II. Tolsto...
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New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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New York (State)
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2014.
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"This book treats three lectures that Weber gave in the last decade of his career as a podium or prism from which to approach his best-known treatises and essays on the rise of occidental capitalism. His remarks on 'Technology and Culture' (1910) and his famous 'Science as a Vocation' (1917) and 'Politics as a Vocation' (1919 lectures) offer a stan...
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Intellectual work and the spirit of capitalism : Weber's calling / Thomas Kemple, Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia, Canada.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-255) and index.
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G 2014/4930
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1137377135 (hardback)
9781137377135 (hardback)
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306.3
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991022056459702626
