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Max Weber's Interpretive Sociology of Law

Max Weber's Interpretive Sociology of Law

This book presents a clear and precise account of the structure and content of Max Weber's sociology of law: situating its methodological and epistemological specificity in relation to other approaches to the sociology of law; as well as offering a critical evaluation of Weber's usefulness for contemporary socio-legal research. The book is divided into three parts. The first part deals with the methodological foundations of Weber's sociology of law. The second analyses the central theme of this sociology the rationalisation of law from the perspective of its internal logical coherence its empirical validity and finally its legitimacy. The third part questions the present-day relevance of the Weberian sociology of law for socio-legal research notably with regard to legal pluralism. Max Weber it is demonstrated is not merely a 'founding father' of the sociology of law; rather his methodology concepts and empirical analyses remain highly useful to the further development of work in this area. | Max Weber's Interpretive Sociology of Law

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Learning Music Theory with Logic Max and Finale

Learning Music Theory with Logic Max and Finale

Learning Music Theory with Logic Max and Finale is a groundbreaking resource that bridges the gap between music theory teaching and the world of music software programs. Focusing on three key programs—the Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) Logic the Audio Programming Language (APL) Max and the music-printing program Finale—this book shows how they can be used together to learn music theory. It provides an introduction to core music theory concepts and shows how to develop programming skills alongside music theory skills. Software tools form an essential part of the modern musical environment; laptop musicians today can harness incredibly powerful tools to create record and manipulate sounds. Yet these programs on their own don’t provide musicians with an understanding of music notation and structures while traditional music theory teaching doesn’t fully engage with technological capabilities. With clear and practical applications this book demonstrates how to use DAWs APLs and music-printing programs to create interactive resources for learning the mechanics behind how music works. Offering an innovative approach to the learning and teaching of music theory in the context of diverse musical genres this volume provides game-changing ideas for educators practicing musicians and students of music. The author's website at http://www. geoffreykidde. com includes downloadable apps that support this book.

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Caesarism Charisma and Fate Historical Sources and Modern Resonances in the Work of Max Weber

Caesarism Charisma and Fate Historical Sources and Modern Resonances in the Work of Max Weber

How do writers marginalized by the authoritarian state in which they live intervene in the political process? They cannot do so directly because they are not politicians. Other modes of engagement are possible however. A writer may take up arms and become a revolutionary. Or as Max Weber did he may try to influence politics by playing the role of constitutional advisor or by seeking to shape the dominant language in which his contemporaries think. Weber sought to reconstitute the political and social vocabulary of his day. Part I of Caesarism Charisma and Fate examines a great writer's political passions and the linguistic creativity they generated. Specially it is an analysis of the manner in which Weber reshaped the nineteenth century idea of Caesarism a term traditionally associated with the authoritarian populism of Napoleon III and Bismarck and transmuted it into a concept that was either neutral or positive. The coup de grace of this alchemy was to make Caesarism reappear as charisma. In that transformation a highly contentious political concept suffused with disapproval and anxiety was naturalized into an ideal type of universal value-free sociology. Part II augments Weber's ideas for the modem age. A recurrent preoccupation of Weber's writings was human fate a condition that evokes the pathos of choice the political meaning of death and the formation of national solidarity. Peter Baehr marrying Weber and Durkheim fashions a new concept community of fate for sociological theory. Communities of fate-such as the Warsaw Ghetto or Hong Kong dealing with the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) crisis-are embattled social sites in which people face the prospect of collective death. They cohere because of an intense and broadly shared focus of attention on a common plight. Weber's work helps us grasp the nature of such communities the mechanisms that produce them and not least their dramatic consequences. | Caesarism Charisma and Fate Historical Sources and Modern Resonances in the Work of Max Weber

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Monasticism in Modern Times

Monasticism in Modern Times

This book presents a broad sociological perspective on the contemporary issues facing Christian monasticism. Since the founding work of Max Weber the sociology of monasticism has received little attention. However the field is now being revitalized by some new research. Focusing on Christian monks and nuns the contributors explore continuity and discontinuity with the past in what superficially might appear a monolithic tradition. Contributors speak not only about monasticism in Europe and the United States but also in Africa and Latin America a different landscape where the question of recruitment does not figure among issues considered as problematic. | Monasticism in Modern Times

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Political Legitimacy Realism in Political Theory and Sociology

Political Legitimacy Realism in Political Theory and Sociology

Political Legitimacy: Realism in Political Theory and Sociology explores the concept of political legitimacy the nature of the normative foundation of politics and the state. With particular attention to the broad theoretical approach of political realism within political theory and political sociology it examines the work of figures including Bernard Williams Raymond Geuss John Grey Max Weber and Niklas Luhmann among others. Contending that in the face of the waning influence of political idealism the insights of political realism constitute a promising way forward the author also advances the view that realist political theory would benefit from sociological insights particularly on the nature of the state. As such Political Legitimacy will appeal to scholars and students of social and political theory political sociology and political philosophy. | Political Legitimacy Realism in Political Theory and Sociology

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The Routledge Companion to the Frankfurt School

The Routledge Companion to the Frankfurt School

The portentous terms and phrases associated with the first decades of the Frankfurt School – exile the dominance of capitalism fascism – seem as salient today as they were in the early twentieth century. The Routledge Companion to the Frankfurt School addresses the many early concerns of critical theory and brings those concerns into direct engagement with our shared world today. In this volume a distinguished group of international scholars from a variety of disciplines revisits the philosophical and political contributions of Theodor W. Adorno Walter Benjamin Max Horkheimer Herbert Marcuse Jürgen Habermas Axel Honneth and others. Throughout the Companion’s focus is on the major ideas that have made the Frankfurt School such a consequential and enduring movement. It offers a crucial resource for those who are trying to make sense of the global and cultural crisis that has now seized our contemporary world.

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Experimental Animation From Analogue to Digital

Experimental Animation From Analogue to Digital

Experimental Animation: From Analogue to Digital focuses on both experimental animation’s deep roots in the twentieth century and its current position in the twenty-first century media landscape. Each chapter incorporates a variety of theoretical lenses including historical materialist phenomenological and scientific perspectives. Acknowledging that process is a fundamental operation underlining experimental practice the book includes not only chapters by international academics but also interviews with well-known experimental animation practitioners such as William Kentridge Jodie Mack Larry Cuba Martha Colburn and Max Hattler. These interviews document both their creative process and thoughts about experimental animation’s ontology to give readers insight into contemporary practice. Global in its scope the book features and discusses lesser known practitioners and unique case studies offering both undergraduate and graduate students a collection of valuable contributions to film and animation studies. | Experimental Animation From Analogue to Digital

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Pedagogical Tact Knowing What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do

Pedagogical Tact Knowing What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do

Pedagogical Tact describes how teacher-student relations possess an improvisational and ethical character. The daily realities of educators parents and childcare specialists are pedagogically conditioned by sensitive insights active thoughtfulness and the creative ability to act caringly and appropriately in the immediacy of the moment. Internationally known educator Max van Manen shows through recognizable examples and evocative stories how good teaching is driven by the phenomenology of pedagogy. His book-refocuses educators and others away from an emphasis on instrumental skills and technocratic programs toward the need for pedagogical tact;-describes how pedagogical actions have latent effects that will influence children throughout their lives;-shows how our actions with young people have pedagogically ethical and moral significance;-gives educators back their original vocational motivation and inspiration. | Pedagogical Tact Knowing What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do

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A Word to the Wise Don Quixote Returns to Fight Perversion

A Word to the Wise Don Quixote Returns to Fight Perversion

After giving us a fascinating reading of Cervantes' classic novel in Don Quixote: Fighting Melancholia Françoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudillière co-author a second work to reflect on the hero's battle against perversion. To do so they retrace his adventures in the Cervantes' second Don Quixote written ten years after the first. The authors follow in his footsteps as he embarks on this other extraordinary journey in which perversion is laid bare for all to see creating not only a powerful social link but even a form of government. Cervantes shows us how madness acts as a means to confront it: here again the field of action presented to the reader is explored in rigorous detail. The reliability of this strategy derives from the power of the given word which has to oppose lies seduction secrets trickery and crime in order to confer authenticity to what madness reveals. | A Word to the Wise Don Quixote Returns to Fight Perversion

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Routledge International Handbook of Charisma

Routledge International Handbook of Charisma

The Routledge International Handbook of Charisma provides an unprecedented multidimensional and multidisciplinary comparative analysis of the phenomenon of charisma – first defined by Max Weber as the irrational bond between deified leader and submissive follower. It includes broad overviews of foundational theories and experiences of charisma and of associated key issues and themes. Contributors include 45 influential international scholars who approach the topic from different disciplinary perspectives and utilize examples from an array of historical and cultural settings. The Handbook presents up-to-date concise thought-provoking innovative and informative perspectives on charisma as it has been expressed in the past and as it continues to be manifested in the contemporary world by leaders ranging from shamans to presidents. It is designed to be essential reading for all students researchers and general readers interested in achieving a comprehensive understanding of the power and potential of charismatic authority in all its varieties subtleties dynamics and current and potential directions.

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Revival: Genre and Void (2003) Looking Back at Sartre and Beauvoir

Revival: Genre and Void (2003) Looking Back at Sartre and Beauvoir

This book was first published in 2003: Developing a reading of some of Beauvoir's and Sartre's most influential writings in philosophy Max Deutscher explores contemporary philosophy in the light of the phenomenological tradition within which Being and Nothingness and The Second Sex occurred as striking events operating on the border of the modern and the post-modern. Deutscher traces the shifts of genre that produce their gendered philosophies and responds in terms of contemporary experience to the mood and the arguments of their works. Drawing upon the writings of two contemporary critics in particular - Michele Le D“uff and Luce Irigaray - Deutscher reworks this part of philosophy's history in order to advance thinking in contemporary philosophy generate renewed philosophical reflection on consciousness freedom and one's relation to others and to return a look still cast in our direction from an earlier time. | Revival: Genre and Void (2003) Looking Back at Sartre and Beauvoir

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Political Leadership Nations and Charisma

Political Leadership Nations and Charisma

This ground-breaking and innovative book examines the influence of charisma on power authority and nationalism. The authors both apply and challenge Max Weber’s concept of ‘charisma’ and integrate it into a broader discussion of other theoretical models. Using an interdisciplinary approach leading international scholars draw on a diverse range of cases to analyse charisma in benign and malignant leaderships as well as the relationship between the cult of the leader the adulation of the masses and the extension of individual authority beyond sheer power. They discuss idiosyncratic authority and oratory and they address how political social and regional variations help explain concepts and policies which helped forge and reformulate nations national identities and movements. The chapters on particular charismatic leaders cover Abraham Lincoln Kemal Atatürk Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Gamal Nasser Jörg Haider and Nelson Mandela. Political Leadership Nations and Charisma will appeal to readers who are interested in history sociology political communication and nationalism studies.

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Administration Ethics and Democracy

Administration Ethics and Democracy

This title was first published in 2000: Administration Ethics and Democracy is concerned with the disciplines of philosophy political science and sociology. ˜jvind Larsen's book provides a deeper analysis of the relations between administration ethics and democracy. In modern society it is no longer sufficient to be the obedient administrator Max Weber speaks about. The time is ripe to re-evaluate the overriding responsibilities of the administration. Today responsible administration demands an independent position to be taken. ˜jvind Larsen views the administration from the continuous complex demands it is required to meet and proposes that the professional role is not exempt from personal responsibility or position. Therefore it is crucial that the administrator has freedom of expression and the opportunity to discuss his problems with others. Ethics are a common concern and also a political problem in democratic society. This is why there is a close connection between administration ethics and democracy.

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Maelstrom Christian Dominionism and Far-Right Insurgence

Maelstrom Christian Dominionism and Far-Right Insurgence

Maelstrom: Christian Dominionism and Far-Right Insurgence illuminates the latest outbreak of right-wing extremism in America. This book reviews the cyclical nature of right-wing resurgences in American history dismisses the appropriateness of the word “fascism” to explain them and then describes in depth the goal of “reconstructing” American institutions on the basis of biblical principles. It critiques the popular view that far-right politics is carried by stupid socially isolated nuts. To this end it discusses the logicality of the “big lie” and examines in detail how people are recruited into the far-right by entertaining the theories of authoritarianism and resource mobilization. Finally it characterizes how the ends-oriented rationality of far-right activists differs from the mini-max criterion of rationality utilized by the ordinary person. This can motivate them to be violent and can frustrate efforts by the government to control them. | Maelstrom Christian Dominionism and Far-Right Insurgence

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Idolatry and the Colonial Idea of India Visions of Horror Allegories of Enlightenment

Idolatry and the Colonial Idea of India Visions of Horror Allegories of Enlightenment

This book explores literary and scholarly representations of India from the 18th to the early 20th centuries in South Asia and the West with idolatry as a point of entry. It charts the intellectual horizon within which the colonial idea of India was framed tracing sources and genealogies which inform even contemporary descriptions of the subcontinent. Using idolatry as a concept-metaphor the book traverses an ambitious path through the works of William Jones James Mill Friedrich Max Müller John Ruskin Alice Perrin E. M. Forster Rammohan Roy and Bankimchandra Chatterjee. It reveals how religion and paganism history and literature Oriental thought and Western metaphysics and social reform and education were unfolded and debated by them. The author underlines how idolatry irrationality and social disorder came to be linked by discourses informed by Enlightenment missionary rhetoric and colonial reason. This book will appeal to scholars and researchers in history anthropology literature culture studies philosophy religion sociology and South Asian studies as well as anyone interested in colonial studies and histories of the Enlightenment. | Idolatry and the Colonial Idea of India Visions of Horror Allegories of Enlightenment

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Novels and the Sociology of the Contemporary

Novels and the Sociology of the Contemporary

This book substantiates two claims. First the modern world was not simply produced by objective factors rooted in geographical discoveries and scientific inventions to be traced to economic technological or political factors but is the outcome of social cultural and spiritual processes. Among such factors beyond the Protestant ethic (Max Weber) the rise of the absolutist state and its disciplinary network (Michel Foucault) or court society (Norbert Elias) a prime role is played by theatre. The modern reality is deeply theatricalized. Second a special access for studying this theatricalized world is offered by novels. The best classical novels not simply can be interpreted as describing a world like the theatre but they capture and present a world that has become thoroughly transformed into a global theatre. The theatre effectively transformed the world and classical novels effectively analyze this theatricalized reality – much better than the main instruments supposedly destined to study reality philosophy and sociology. Thus instead of using the technique of sociology to analyze novels the book will treat novels as a royal road to analyze a theatricalized reality in order to find our way back to a genuine and meaningful life. | Novels and the Sociology of the Contemporary

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Introduction to Sociology Concepts and Theories

Introduction to Sociology Concepts and Theories

This textbook explores the emergence of sociology as a distinct social science. Focusing on the evolution of social theories movements and ideas through history it analyses the dynamic relationship between the individual and the larger social forces around them. This volume examines the definitive aspects of societies communities and social groups and their intersections with culture political and economic movements and religious institutions. It establishes the connections between sociology and other disciplines such as philosophy history political science economics psychology and anthropology to explore the interdependence between different realms of social life. The chapters in this book explain and highlight the significance of quantitative and qualitative methods of research in understanding the dynamics of social life. Drawing from the works of classical social theorists such as Auguste Comte Herbert Spencer Karl Marx Emile Durkheim and Max Weber this book traces the development of sociological perspectives and theories and their relevance in the history of ideas. Lucid and comprehensive this textbook will be useful for undergraduate and postgraduate students of sociology development studies history of ideas sociological thought social theory research methods political science and anthropology. | Introduction to Sociology Concepts and Theories

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Researching Lived Experience Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy

Researching Lived Experience Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy

Bestselling author Max van Manen’s Researching Lived Experience introduces a human science approach to research methodology in education and related fields. The book takes as its starting point the everyday lived experience of human beings in educational situations. Rather than rely on abstract generalizations and theories in the traditional sense the author offers an alternative that taps the unique nature of each human situation. First published in 1990 this book is a classic of social science methodology and phenomenological research selling tens of thousands of copies over the past quarter century. Left Coast is making available the second edition of this work never before released outside Canada. Researching Lived Experience offers detailed methodological explications and practical examples of inquiry. It shows how to orient oneself to human experience in education and how to construct a textual question which evokes a fundamental sense of wonder and it provides a broad and systematic set of approaches for gaining experiential material which forms the basis for textual reflections. The author: -Discusses the part played by language in educational research-Pays special attention to the methodological function of anecdotal narrative in research-Offers approaches to structuring the research text in relation to the particular kinds of questions being studied | Researching Lived Experience Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy

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David Martin and the Sociology of Religion

David Martin and the Sociology of Religion

David Martin is a pioneer of a political sociology of religion that integrates a combined analysis of nationalism and political religions with the history of religion. He was one of the first critics of the so-called secularization thesis and his historical orientation makes him one of the few outstanding scholars who have continued the work begun by Max Weber and Emile Durkheim. This collection provides the first scholarly overview of his hugely influential work and includes a chapter written by David Martin himself. Starting with an introduction that contextualises David Martin’s theories on the sociology of religion both currently and historically this volume aims to cover David Martin’s lifework in its entirety. An international panel of contributors sheds new light on his studies of particular geographical areas (Britain Latin America Scandinavia) and on certain systematic fields (secularization violence music Pentecostalism the relation between sociology and theology). David Martin’s concluding chapter addresses the critical points raised in response to his theories. This book addresses one of the key figures in the development of the sociology of religion and as such it will be of great interest to all scholars of the sociology of religion. | David Martin and the Sociology of Religion

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Colonial Slavery An Abridged Translation

Colonial Slavery An Abridged Translation

Jacob Gorender's (1923–2013) 1978 book Colonial Slavery (O Escravismo Colonial) comes alive for English language readers thanks to Bernd Reiter and Alejandro Reyes's brilliant translation. Gorender argued that slave-holding societies produced an economic system sui generis not fitting into any of the established societal categories offered by Karl Marx and Max Weber. As such Gorender proposed a theory of colonial slavery as the structuring force of slave-holding societies. For him slave-holding societies are different from other societies in that slavery structured them differently. This is of the utmost relevance to this day as it allows for a new and different way to explain contemporary racial inequalities in post-slavery societies. An accomplished interpreter of Brazilian social formation Gorender was motivated by the need to understand the historical roots of class domination and the emergence of Brazilian capitalist society. His presentation of rich historical data rigorous theoretical and analytical framework and militant action as an active member of the Brazilian Communist Party are the hallmarks of his writing. Colonial Slavery: An Abridged Translation is a must-read for researchers teachers and students of history sociology economics politics as well as activists of the Black movement and other movements committed to anti-racism. | Colonial Slavery An Abridged Translation

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Sociology and Military Studies Classical and Current Foundations

Sociology and Military Studies Classical and Current Foundations

This book examines the connection between sociology and the challenges faced by the modern military. Military sociology has received little attention in the broader academic world and is mostly focused on civil-military relations. This book seeks to address this gap and combines ideas theories and insights from sociology’s founding authors with each chapter focusing on a specific thinker. There are chapters on Max Weber Emile Durkheim Karl Marx Georg Simmel Jane Addams W. E. B. Du Bois Erving Goffman Michel Foucault Morris Janowitz Norbert Elias Cornelis Lammers Arlie Russell Hochschild Cynthia Enloe and Bruno Latour and each essay discusses their ideas and theories in relation to topics that are of concern in and around the military today. Military studies are taken in a broad sense here so the volume encompasses a wide range of issues including civil-military relations military-political affairs performance and outcomes of military operations and organizational arrangements including technology and the composition performance and well-being of personnel. The book intends to provide views and insights that will help the military to innovate their organizations and practices not necessarily in the usual functional way of innovating (i. e. faster more precise etc. ) but in a broader way. This book will be of great interest to students of sociology military studies civil-military relations war and conflict studies and IR in general. | Sociology and Military Studies Classical and Current Foundations

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Animism and Shamanism in Twentieth-Century Art Kandinsky Ernst Pollock Beuys

Animism and Shamanism in Twentieth-Century Art Kandinsky Ernst Pollock Beuys

Wassily Kandinsky Max Ernst Jackson Pollock and Joseph Beuys were the leading artists of their generations to recognize the rich possibilities that animism and shamanism offered. While each of these artists' connection with shamanism has been written about separately Evan Firestone brings the four together in order to compare their individual approaches to anthropological materials and to define similarities and differences between them. The author's close readings of their works and examination of the relevant texts available to them reveal fresh insights and new perspectives. The importance of indigenous beliefs in animism for Kandinsky's philosophy of art and practice especially the animism of inanimate objects is analyzed for the first time in conjunction with his well-known enthusiasms for Symbolism and Theosophy. Ernst's collage novel La femme 100 tetes (1929) previously found to have significant alchemical content also is shown to extensively utilize shamanism thereby merging different branches of the occult that prove to have remarkable similarities. The in-depth examination of Pollock's works both known and overlooked for shamanic content identifies textual sources that heretofore have escaped notice. Firestone also demonstrates how shamanism was employed by this artist to express his desire for healing and transformation. The author further argues that the German edition of Mircea Eliade's Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (1957) helped to revitalize Beuys's life and art and that his ecological campaigns reflected a new consciousness later termed ecoanimism. | Animism and Shamanism in Twentieth-Century Art Kandinsky Ernst Pollock Beuys

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Main Currents in Sociological Thought 2 Volume Set

Main Currents in Sociological Thought 2 Volume Set

Raymond Aron's classic two-volume study of the sociological tradition is arguably the definitive work of its kind. More than a work of reconstruction Aron's study is at its deepest level an engagement with the question of modernity: What constitutes the essence of the modern order that having emerged in the eighteenth century still shapes our experience? With scrupulous fairness Aron examines the thought and arguments of the major social thinkers in this two volume set. Volume one explores three traditions: the French liberal school of political sociology represented by Montesquieu and Tocqueville; the Comtean tradition anticipating Durkheim in its its elevation of social unity and consensus; and the Marxists who posited the struggle between classes and placed their faith in historical necessity. Volume two explores the work of three figures who profoundly shaped sociology as it entered the twentieth century: Emile Durkheim who continued Auguste Comte's quest for a science of society and a scientific validation of morality; Vilfredo Pareto the Italian neo-Machiavellian who emphasized the oligarchic or elitist character of all societies; and the German sociologist Max Weber who reflected critically on the prospects for human freedom in an age marked by bureaucratization and rationalization. Both volumes of Main Currents of Sociological Thought are essential reading for any student of sociology political thought and political philosophy as well as any general reader interested in the ideas the thinkers who shaped modern social and political thought. | Main Currents in Sociological Thought 2 Volume Set

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Freud's Russia National Identity in the Evolution of Psychoanalysis

Freud's Russia National Identity in the Evolution of Psychoanalysis

Freud's lifelong involvement with the Russian national character and culture is examined in James Rice's imaginative combination of history literary analysis and psychoanalysis. 'Freud's Russia' opens up the neglected Eastern Front of Freud's world-the Russian roots of his parents colleagues and patients. He reveals that the psychoanalyst was vitally concerned with the events in Russian history and its nineteenth-century cultural greats. Rice explores how this intense interest contributed to the evolution of psychoanalysis at every critical stage. Freud's mentor Charcot was a physician to the Tsar; his best friends in Paris were gifted Russian doctors; and some of his most valued colleagues (Max Eitingon Moshe Wulff Sabina Spielrein and Lou Andreas-Salome) were also from Russia. These acquaintances intrigued Freud and precipitated his inquiry into the Russian psyche. Rice shows how Freud's major works incorporate elements overtly and covertly from his Russia. He describes Freud's most famous case the Wolf-Man (Sergei Pankeev) and traces how his personality fused in Freud's imagination with that of Feodor Dostoevsky. Beyond this Rice reveals the remarkable influence Dostoevsky had on Freud surveying Freud's extensive library holdings and sources of biographical information on the Russian novelist. Initially inspired by the Freud-Jung letters that appeared in 1974 'Freud's Russia' breaks new ground. Its fresh perspective will be of significant interest to psychoanalysts historians of European culture biographers of Freud and students of Dostoevsky in comparative literature. It is a major work in fusing European intellectual history with the founding father of psychoanalysis. | Freud's Russia National Identity in the Evolution of Psychoanalysis

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Capitalism and its Critics Capitalism in Social and Political Theory

Capitalism and its Critics Capitalism in Social and Political Theory

Capitalism and its Critics offers an accessible account of major theories of capitalism from the industrial revolution to the present day. The book provides a comprehensive account of the economic and social thought of key theorists from Adam Smith and Karl Marx to David Harvey and Thomas Piketty. Capitalism has long been the subject of passionate debate and today such contestations are perhaps more timely than ever. For its advocates capitalism brings democracy and freedom and is the cornerstone of modernity and of progress. For its critics capitalism is based on the exploitation of labour and is responsible for the destruction of the environment as well as colonialism. Whether capitalism survives the century or whether an alternative social system emerges may very well determine the fate of humanity. Capitalism and its Critics gives a comprehensive critical analysis of the most important theorists of capitalism including Adam Smith Karl Marx Max Weber Joseph Schumpeter Karl Polanyi F. A. Hayek J. M. Keynes David Harvey and Thomas Piketty. The book discusses some of the main debates about capitalism and considers alternatives in the twenty-first century. The 12 chapters are loosely chronologically organised around the main approaches and historical phases in the history of capitalism. Central themes of the book are the ideas of capitalist crisis and of tensions between democracy and capitalism in the making of modernity. A highly readable informative and engaging text Capitalism and its Critics is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding capitalism and its alternatives. | Capitalism and its Critics Capitalism in Social and Political Theory

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