Science as a Vocation
Published on 10. November 1988
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-04-301211-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book contains a collection of essays debating the "Science as a Vocation" lecture by Max Weber, whose work may be regarded as a starting point for investigation into the nature, meaning and purpose of the social sciences. The aim of this book is to direct attention back to this debate and to indicate its current relevance. It is hoped that this book will provide an illustration of the way in which historical and philosophical considerations concerning the development of the modern social sciences are intertwined. Some of the essays have been selected in terms of their considered importance in presenting a cross-section of the debate that was occasioned by Weber's lecture, while others discuss problems and themes in the light of more recent commentaries on political and social thought.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
biographical notes, sources, references, index
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 140 mm
Weight
432 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-04-301211-6 (9780043012116)
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Content
Max Weber - science as a vocation; the vocation of science, Erich von Kahler; for science - against the intellectuals among its depisers, Arthur Salz; the revolution in science, Ernst Troeltsch; Max Weber on science as a vocation, Ernst Robert Curtius; Max Weber's view of science, Heinrich Rickert; sociology and the study and formulation of "Weltanschauung", Max Scheler; Max Weber's exclusion of philosophy (on the psychology and sociology of nominalist thought), Max Scheler; Max Weber's significance for intellectual history, Siegfried Landshut; the crisis of science in Germany in 1919, Erich Wittenberg; Max Weber's ethical criticism and the problem of metaphysics, Erik Wolf; Max Weber's position on science, Karl Lowith; Max Weber on science, disenchantment and the search for meaning, Peter Lassman and Irving Velody.