Beschreibung:
The problem of the nature of values and the relation between values and rationality is one of the defining issues of twentieth-century thought and Max Weber was one of the defining figures in the debate. In this book, Turner and Factor consider the development of the dispute over Max Weber's contribution to this discourse, by showing how Weber's views have been used, revised and adapted in new contexts.
Introduction; Chapter 1 Problems of context and interpretation; Chapter 2 Reason and decision: Weber's core doctrine and value choices; Chapter 3 Weber's political design; Chapter 4 The Weimar era dispute; Chapter 5 Words into action: Jaspers and Heidegger; Chapter 6 Nazism, fascism, and the later dispute; Chapter 7 The emergence of the dispute in England and America; Chapter 8 The issue reframed: positivism and value-free social science; Chapter 9 The later form of the critique;