A companion volume to Max Weber: Critical Assessments (1), Max Weber: Critical Assessments (2) presents a representative selection of the scholarship which analyses Weber's political, legal, economic and historical work in greater detail, and conforms to a wider debate about the relevance of Weber's historical and political thought to contemporary concerns.The sheer scale of new Weber scholarship means that a completely new selection of 80 articles has been published. This set of critical assessments concentrates on key themes in the re-thinking of Weber, dealing more closely with the political, legal, economic and historical components of his work.
Peter Hamilton teaches sociology at Open University.
Volume OnePreface, Abbreviations, Appendix: Chronological Table of Reprinted Articles, General CommentarySection One: Politics and Political QuestionsCommentary1. Max Weber and the German University Peter Gay2. Max Weber's 'Central Problem' W. Hennis3. Domestic Factors in German Foreign Policy before 1914 W. Mommsen4. Voluntarism and Judgement: Max Weber's Political Views in the Context of his Work W. Hennis5. The Illusion of Politics: Politics and Rationalization in Max Weber and Georg Lukacs S. Breuer6. Max Weber's Typology of Politicians: A Re-examination A. Gunlicks7. Max Weber's Interpretation of Karl Marx C. Mayer8. The 'Science' of Social Policy: Max Weber Revisited Asoke Basu9. A Metatheoretical Note on Max Weber's Political Sociology R. Braungart10. Sociological Classics and the First World War H. Joas11. The Sociology of the State: Carl Scmitt and Max Weber G.L. Ulmen12. Max Weber and Human Rights as the Ethos of the Modern Era W. Brugger13. Bureaucracy and Democracy: On the Relationship of Political Efficiency and Political Freedom in Max Weber W. Schluchter14. The Antinomian Structure of Max Weber's Political Thought W. Mommsen15. Max Weber: A Man under Stress H. Gerth16. The Uses and Misuses of Max Weber's Types of Legitimation in American Sociology H.D. Duncan17. Deskriptive und normative Pluralismstheorie in Amerika und England R. Steinberg18. Rationality and Freedom: Weber and Beyond D.N. Levine19. Democracy and Social Structure in Pre-Nazi Germany Talcott Parsons20. The Legacy of Max Weber: A non-metaphysical politics D.M. Rossides21. Max Weber: the German Professor in Politics B. Frye22. Max Weber: Politik, Soziologie und Geschichtschreibung J. Streisand23. Max Weber's Politics and Political Education L.A. Scaff24. Max Weber and Karl Marx I. Lewis25. Power and Resistance J.M. Barbalet26. Value-relevance, scientific laws, and ideal types: the sociological methodology of Max Weber J. RexVolume TwoSection Two: Methodological and Legal IssuesCommentary27. Edmund Husserl's Impact on Max Weber Kenneth R. Muse28. The Concept of Causality in the Physical and Social Sciences A. Goldweiser 29. Max Weber's Elective Affinities: Sociology within the Bounds of Reason Richard Herbert Howe30. Max Weber's Postulate of 'Freedom' F.H. Blum31. Max Weber and American Puritanism Karl H. Hertz32. An Analysis of Max Weber's Theory of Ethnicity M. Jackson33. Max Weber as Critical Theorist D. McIntosh34. The Vanishing Mediator: Narrative in Max Weber F. Jameson35. The West German discussion of Max Weber's sociology of Religion since the 1960s C. Seyfarth36. Rationalization and the Status of Gender Divisions J.J.R. Thomas37. Otto Hintze, Max Weber und das Problem der Burokratie J. Kocke38. Magic Rationality M.L. Wax39. Some Remarks on the Theory of Social and Economic Organization Edward Shils40. Marx and Weber on Liberalism as Bourgeois Ideology R. Ashcraft41. On "De-Parsonizing Weber" T. Parsons42. Weber, Goldman and the Sociology of Beliefs T. Lovell43. The Kathmandu Option: Patrimony and Bureaucracy E. Gellner44. De-Parsonizing Weber: A Critique of Parsons' Interpretation of Weber's Sociology J. Cohen, L. Hazelrigg, W. Pope45. Max Weber and the Dynamics of Rationalized Domination J. Cohen46. Max Weber on Self Interest and Domination G. Philo and P. Walton47. An Extension of Max Weber's Theory of Bureaucracy J. Maneker48. Max Weber und seine Stellung zur Wissenscha