Max Weber in America /
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| Author / Creator: | Scaff, Lawrence A. |
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| Imprint: | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2011. |
| Description: | xiv, 311 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8305581 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part 1. The American Journey
- 1. Thoughts about America
- Traveling to Progressive America
- New Horizons of Thought
- A ôSpiritualisticö Construction of the Modern Economy?
- 2. The Land of Immigrants
- Arriving in New York
- Church and Sect, Status and Class
- Settlements and Urban Space
- 3. Capitalism
- The City as Phantasmagoria
- Hull House, the Stockyards, and the Working Class
- Character as Social Capital
- 4. Science and World Culture
- The St. Louis Congress: Unity of the Sciences?
- The Last Time for a Free and Great Development: American Exceptionalism?
- The Politics of Art
- Gender, Education, and Authority
- 5. Remnants of Romanticism
- The Lure of the Frontier
- The Problems of Indian Territory
- Nature, Traditionalism, and the New World
- The Significance of the Frontier
- 6. The Color Line
- Du Bois and the Study of Race
- The Lessons of Tuskegee
- Race and Ethnicity, Class and Caste
- 7. Different Ways of Life
- Colonial Children
- Nothing Remains except Eternal Change
- Ecological Interlude
- Inner Life and Public World
- The Cool Objectivity of Sociaaon
- 8. The Protestant Ethic
- Spirit and World
- William James and His Circle
- Ideas and Experience
- 9. American Modernity
- Strange Contradictions
- Becoming American
- Cultural Pluralism
- 10. Interpretation of the Experience
- The Discourse about America
- A Way Out of the Iron Cage?
- America in Weber's Work
- Part 2. The Work in America
- 11. The Discovery of the Author
- Author and Audience
- Networks of Scholars
- Translation History
- The Disciplines
- 12. The Creation of the Sacred Text
- An American in Heidelberg
- Parsons Translates The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
- 13. The Invention of the Theory
- Gerth and Mills Publish a Weber ôSource Bookö
- Parsons's ôTheory of Social and Economic Organizationö
- Weber among the Émigrés
- Weberian Sociology and Social Theory
- Weber beyond Weberian Sociology
- Appendix 1. Max and Marianne Weber's Itinerary for the American Journey in 1904
- Appendix 2. Max Weber, Selected Correspondence with American Colleagues, 1904-5
- Archives and Collections Consulted
- Bibliographic Notes
- Index
