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John Patrick Diggins has been a professional historian of the retreat of the American left for many years, most recently in The Promise of Pragmatism. Now he turns his attention to the rather pessimistic European figure of Max Weber (1864-1920). Weber regarded capitalism as, at best, an "iron cage" of comfortable boredom that destroyed the spirit. The inspiration for his famous The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism came from his 1904 visit to the U.S., where he was impressed and appalled by the deep connection between the Puritan work ethic and business success. Diggins clearly shares much of Weber's viewpoint, and expertly conveys his ideas on religion and ideology, authority and freedom, politics and ethics, and other diverse topics including Judaism and eroticism.
The New York Times Book Review, Alan Ryan
The attentive reader will find most of the main incidents of Weber's life here, and some interesting commentary ... The purpose ... is to get readers to take Weber's distaste for the brashness, vulgarity and general foolishness of modern democratic societies ... seriously. In that he is rather successful.
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John Patrick Diggins has been a professional historian of the retreat of the American left for many years, most recently in The Promise of Pragmatism. Now he turns his attention to the rather pessimistic European figure of Max Weber (1864-1920). Weber regarded capitalism as, at best, an "iron cage" of comfortable boredom that destroyed the spirit. The inspiration for his famous The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism came from his 1904 visit to the U.S., where he was impressed and appalled by the deep connection between the Puritan work ethic and business success. Diggins clearly shares much of Weber's viewpoint, and expertly conveys his ideas on religion and ideology, authority and freedom, politics and ethics, and other diverse topics including Judaism and eroticism.
The New York Times Book Review, Alan Ryan
The attentive reader will find most of the main incidents of Weber's life here, and some interesting commentary ... The purpose ... is to get readers to take Weber's distaste for the brashness, vulgarity and general foolishness of modern democratic societies ... seriously. In that he is rather successful.
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- Beyond the Enlightenment: Lives and Thoughts of Social Theorists by Roger A. Salerno on page 65, and Back Matter
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- Carl Schmitt's Critique of Liberalism: Against Politics as Technology (Modern European Philosophy) by John P. McCormick on page 37, and Back Matter
- The Revival of Pragmatism: New Essays on Social Thought, Law, and Culture (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by Richard Rorty in Back Matter
- Max Weber and Michel Foucault: Parallel Life Works (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought, 8) by Arpa Szakolczai in Back Matter
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