Research Catalog

Title

Max Weber and international relations / edited by Richard Ned Lebow.

Publication

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

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Additional Authors

Lebow, Richard Ned

Description

vii, 203 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• "Max Weber explored the political, epistemological and ethical problems of modernity, and understood how closely connected they were. His efforts are imaginative, sophisticated, even inspiring, but also flawed. Weber's epistemological successes and failures highlight unresolvable tensions that are just as pronounced today and from which we have much to learn. This edited collection of essays offers novel readings of Weber's politics, approach to knowledge, rationality, counterfactuals, ideal types, power, bureaucracy, the state, history, and the non-Western world. The conclusions look at how some of his prominent successors have addressed or finessed the tensions of the epistemological between subjective values and subjective knowledge; the sociological between social rationalization and irrational myths; the personal among conflicting values; the political between the kinds of leaders democracies select and the national tasks that should be performed; and the tragic between human conscience and worldly affairs"--
• "This edited collection of essays offers novel readings of Weber's politics, approach to knowledge, rationality, counterfactuals, ideal types, power, bureaucracy, the state, history, and the non-Western world. The conclusions look at how some of his prominent successors have addressed or finessed the tensions of the epistemological between subjective values and subjective knowledge; the sociological between social rationalization and irrational myths; the personal among conflicting values; the political between the kinds of leaders democracies select and the national tasks that should be performed; and the tragic between human conscience and worldly affairs"--

Subjects

• Weber, Max, 1864-1920
• Politische Theorie
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
• Political and social views
• International relations > Philosophy
• Weber, Max, 1864-1920 > Political and social views
• Internationale Politik

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction Richard Ned Lebow; 2. Max Weber and international relations Richard Ned Lebow; 3. Wissenschaftliche Warheit: Weber's search for knowledge Richard Ned Lebow; 4. Production of facts: ideal-typification and the preservation of politics Patrick Thaddeus Jackson; 5. Max Weber's power Stefano Guzzini; 6. International organizations and bureaucratic modernity Jens Steffek; 7. Decolonizing Weber: the Eurocentrism of Weber's IR and historical sociology John M. Hobson; 8. Weber's tragic legacy David Bohmer Lebow and Richard Ned Lebow.

Call Number

JFE 17-11223

ISBN

• 9781108416382
• 1108416381

LCCN

2017029481

OCLC

972857450

Title

Max Weber and international relations / edited by Richard Ned Lebow.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Lebow, Richard Ned, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-11223