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Auteur(s) : Scaff, Lawrence A.
Titre(s) : Max Weber in America [Texte imprimé] / Lawrence A. Scaff
Publication : Princeton, N.J. : Princeton university press, c2011
Description matérielle : xiv, 311 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Comprend : The American journey. Thoughts about America ; The land of immigrants ; Capitalism
; Science and world culture ; Remnants of romanticism ; The color line ; Different
ways of life ; The Protestant ethic ; American modernity ; Interpretation of the
experience ; The work in America. The discovery of the author ; The creation of
the sacred text ; The invention of the theory.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-303) and index
Max Weber, widely considered a founder of sociology and the modern social sciences,
visited the United States in 1904 with his wife Marianne. The trip was a turning point
in Weber's life and it played a pivotal role in shaping his ideas, yet until now virtually
our only source of information about the trip was Marianne Weber's faithful but not
always reliable 1926 biography of her husband. Max Weber in America carefully reconstructs
this important episode in Weber's career, and shows how the subsequent critical reception
of Weber's work was as American a story as the trip itself. Lawrence Scaff provides
new details about Weber's visit to the United States--what he did, what he saw, whom
he met and why, and how these experiences profoundly influenced Weber's thought on
immigration, capitalism, science and culture, Romanticism, race, diversity, Protestantism,
and modernity. Scaff traces Weber's impact on the development of the social sciences
in the United States following his death in 1920, examining how Weber's ideas were
interpreted, translated, and disseminated by American scholars such as Talcott Parsons
and Frank Knight, and how the Weberian canon, codified in America, was reintroduced
into Europe after World War II. A landmark work by a leading Weber scholar, Max Weber
in America will fundamentally transform our understanding of this influential thinker
and his place in the history of sociology and the social sciences.
Sujet(s) : Weber, Max (1864-1920) -- Voyages -- États-Unis
Sociologie -- États-Unis -- 1900-1945
Indice(s) Dewey :
301.092 (23e éd.) = Sociologie et anthropologie - Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780691147796 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0691147795 (cloth) (alk. paper) (rel.)
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