Max Weber, Rationality and Modernity

London Metropolitan University, UK Goldsmiths College London, UK

• Introduction, Sam Whimster, Scott Lash; Part 1 The Processes of Rationalization; Chapter 1 Personal Conduct and Societal Change, Wolfgang Mommsen, Rainhild Wells; Chapter 2 Personality and Life Orders:, Wilhelm Hennis, Keith Tribe; Chapter 3 Rationalization in Max Weber’s Developmental History, Guenther Roth; Chapter 4 Weber’s Sociology of Rationalism and Typology of Religious Rejections of the World, Wolfgang Schluchter, Ralph Schroeder; Part 2 Rationalization and the Limits of Rational Action; Chapter 5 Legitimation and Structured Interests in Weber’s Sociology of Religion, Pierre Bourdieu, Chris Turner; Chapter 6 Rationality and the Characterization of Modern Society, Barry Hindess; Chapter 7 On the Irreversibility of Western Rationalization and Max Weber’s Alleged Fatalism, Johannes Weiss, Bruce Allen, Sam Whimster; Chapter 8 The Application of the Weberian Concept of Rationalization to Contemporary Conditions, Martin Albrow; Part 3 Problems of Modernity; Chapter 9 The Dialectic of Individuation and Domination: Weber’s Rationalization Theory and Beyond, Jeffrey C. Alexander; Chapter 10 Nietzsche and Weber: Two ‘Prophets’ of the Modern World, Ralph Schroeder; Chapter 11 The Rationalization of the Body: Reflections on Modernity and Discipline, Bryan S. Turner; Chapter 12 Max Weber on Erotic Love: a Feminist Inquiry, Roslyn Wallach Bologh; Chapter 13 The Secular Ethic and the Culture of Modernism, Sam Whimster; Part 4 Reason and the Political Order; Chapter 14 The Soul of the Citizen: Max Weber and Michel Foucault on Rationality and Government, Colin Gordon; Chapter 15 Charisma and Twentieth-Century Politics, Luciano Cavalli; Chapter 16 Decisionism and Politics: Weber as Constitutional Theorist, Stephen Turner, Regis Factor; Chapter 17 Modernity or Modernism? Weber and Contemporary Social Theory, Scott Lash;