Max Weber and Thomas Mann

Harvey Goldman is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego.

出版者:University of California Press

作者:Harvey Goldman

页数:0

出版时间:1991-11-06

价格:USD 16.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780520076556

图书标签:韦伯社会学社会理论英文原版心理学

Though they worked in very different disciplines, Max Weber and Thomas Mann were engaged from early in their careers in a remarkably similar enterprise converging on questions of personal identity and national self-understanding, and built upon conceptions drawn from a common intellectual and national heritage. Harvey Goldman's ambitious new book is about a part of that enterprise, the foundation of their understanding of the relation of self and work as set out in Weber's essays on religion and Mann's pre-World War I writings. Weber and Mann sought to revitalize a set of ideas of character and action--calling and personality--to guide their own lives and intellectual creation, as well as politics and the life of the nation. In their hands these ideas also became explanatory tools for understanding the crisis of their class and of Germany.

By organizing the interpretation of Weber and Mann around the conceptual nexus of calling and personality, the author reveals a number of issues and problems that have been overlooked, providing an altogether new approach to Weber's famous explanation of the capitalist spirit and recovering a vital modern debate around the idea and meaning of the person. In the convergence of so many themes in their writings, Weber and Mann exemplify the self-understanding of their age and cast a special light on problems of self, identity, and social life. This work contains fascinating material for students of intellectual history and modern political theory. Anyone concerned generally with twentieth-century European history, politics, philosophy, and literature will welcome this rich, vigorously written book.

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本以为是一本呵呵之作，可是读罢第一章就觉得如过电一般~

本以为是一本呵呵之作，可是读罢第一章就觉得如过电一般~

没有我期待的那么好：也许是期待太高了，也许是因为写曼的部分匆匆略过的缘故。

本以为是一本呵呵之作，可是读罢第一章就觉得如过电一般~

没有我期待的那么好：也许是期待太高了，也许是因为写曼的部分匆匆略过的缘故。