Max Weber's 'Science as a Vocation' (RLE Social Theory): Volume 43 (Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138786217 ISBN 13: 9781138786219

Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

Max Weber’s lecture ‘Science as a Vocation’ is a classic of social thought, in which central questions are posed about the nature of social and political thought and action. The lecture has often taken to be a summation of Weber’s thought. It can also be argued that, together with the responses of its admirers and critics, it provides a focus for discussion of the nature of modernity and its political consequences, and of the philosophical and political implications of the social or human sciences. This volume provides a full, clear, revised translation of the lecture, together with translations from the German of key contributions to the lively debate that followed its publication. The book concludes with a substantial essay on the current significance of the lecture, which discusses its relevance to the debates about the nature of science as a cultural phenomenon; the disjunction between science and nature; Weber’s conception of the disenchantment of the world; the division of scientific labour; and the fundamental nature and place of sociology.

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About the Author

NICHOLAS ABERCROMBIE, University of Lancaster

ALAN WARDE, University of Manchester

ROSEMARY DEEM, University of Lancaster

SUE PENNA, University of Lancaster

KEITH SOOTHILL, University of Lancaster

ANDREW SAYER, University of Lancaster

JOHN URRY, University of Lancaster

SYLVIA WALBY, University of Leeds

His main research in recent years has been in advocating and developing a new paradigm for the social sciences, the new mobilities paradigm

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1138786217
• ISBN 13: 9781138786219
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 236
• Editor: Lassman Peter, Velody Irving, Martins Herminio