Love or greatness (Routledge Revivals)
Love or greatness (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Roslyn Bologh

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-12-15

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13: 1135156425

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This work, first published in 1990, reissues the first thorough examination of the essentially masculine nature of Max Weber's social and political thinking. Through a detailed examination of his central texts, the author demonstrates Weber's masculine reading of 'social life' and shows how his work advocates a masculine form of life that poses a challenge to contemporary women and to feminism. In particular, she addresses the patriarchal implications of Weber's belief in the need to relegate the ethic of brotherly love to a private sphere in order to make possible rational action and the achievement of greatness in the public sphere.

Love Or Greatness (Routledge Revivals)
Love Or Greatness (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Roslyn Wallach Bologh

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-12-15

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1135156433

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This work, first published in 1990, reissues the first thorough examination of the essentially masculine nature of Max Weber's social and political thinking. Through a detailed examination of his central texts, the author demonstrates Weber's masculine reading of 'social life' and shows how his work advocates a masculine form of life that poses a challenge to contemporary women and to feminism. In particular, she addresses the patriarchal implications of Weber's belief in the need to relegate the ethic of brotherly love to a private sphere in order to make possible rational action and the achievement of greatness in the public sphere.

Ruskin (Routledge Revivals)
Ruskin (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Derrick Leon

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-07-24

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13: 1317440471

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This book, first published in 1949, is an important work in Victorian studies, and directs light on Ruskin’s personal tragedy, his public life, and on the character of his work. This book will be of interest to students of history and cultural studies.

The Lonely Tower (Routledge Revivals)
The Lonely Tower (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Thomas Rice Henn

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-03

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 1136472274

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First published in 1965, this reissue of the second edition of T. R. Henn’s seminal study offers an impressive breadth and depth of meditations on the poetry of W. B. Yeats. His life and influences are discussed at length, from the impact of the Irish Rebellion upon his youth, to his training as a painter, to the influence of folklore, occultism and Indian philosophy on his work. Henn seeks out the many elements of Yeats’ famously complex personality, as well as analysing the dominant symbols of his work, and their ramifications.

Edward Carpenter (Routledge Revivals)
Edward Carpenter (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Gilbert Beith

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-23

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1317702875

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Edward Carpenter: In Appreciation, first published in 1931, presents a collection of tributes to and reminiscences about the renowned socialist poet, pioneering gay rights activist, environmentalist and political thinker. Embroiled in controversy with prominent figures of all political persuasions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Carpenter’s vision of sexual freedom, democracy and an end to commercialism was maintained with integrity over the course of his whole life. These portraits and anecdotes testify to a man of both determination and warmth, whose writings, though inspirational for many up to the 1960s, are seldom read today.

Max Weber's Vision for Bureaucracy
Max Weber's Vision for Bureaucracy

Author: Glynn Cochrane

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-08-11

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 3319622897

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This volume examines Max Weber’s pre-World War I thinking about bureaucracy. It suggests that Weber’s vision shares common components with the highly efficient Prussian General Staff military bureaucracy developed by Clausewitz and Helmuth von Moltke. Weber did not believe that Germany’s other major institutions, the Civil Service, industry, or the army could deliver world class performances since he believed that they pursued narrow, selfish interests. However, following Weber’s death in 1920, the model published by his wife Marianne contained none of the military material about which Weber had written approvingly in the early chapters of Economy and Society. Glynn Cochrane concludes that Weber’s model was unlikely to include military material after the Versailles peace negotiations (in which Weber participated) outlawed the Prussian General Staff in 1919.

Immediacy and Its Limits (Routledge Revivals)
Immediacy and Its Limits (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Nathan Rotenstreich

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-10-15

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 1135162778

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Originally published in 1991, this book focuses on a major problem in the philosophy of Martin Buber. This is the topic of immediacy which is presented in terms of the contact between human beings on the one hand, and man and God on the other. The basic theme throughout is whether the I-Thou relation refers to immediate contact between human beings, as Buber saw it, or whether that relation is something established or aspired to. This is an important study which should be consulted in any future discussion of Martin Buber’s thought. At the same time, it raises critical issues for recent European philosophy. Students of philosophy, and religious and social thought will find its critical exposition extremely helpful.

The Power of the Powerless (Routledge Revivals)
The Power of the Powerless (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Vaclav Havel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-11-05

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1135155666

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Books of great political insight and novelty always outlive their time of birth and this reissued work, initially published in 1985, is no exception. Written shortly after the formation of Charter 77, the essays in this collection are among the most original and compelling pieces of political writing to have emerged from central and Eastern Europe during the whole of the post-war period. Václav Havel’s essay provides the title for the book. It was read by all the contributors who in turn responded to the many questions which Havel raises about the potential power of the powerless. The essays explain the anti-democratic features and limits of Soviet-type totalitarian systems of power. They discuss such concepts as ideology, democracy, civil liberty, law and the state from a perspective which is radically different from that of people living in liberal western democracies. The authors also discuss the prospects for democratic change under totalitarian conditions. Steven Lukes’ introduction provides an invaluable political and historical context for these writings. The authors represent a very broad spectrum of democratic opinion, including liberal, conservative and socialist.

Routledge Revivals: Henry Fielding and the Augustan Ideal Under Stress (1972)
Routledge Revivals: Henry Fielding and the Augustan Ideal Under Stress (1972)

Author: Claude Rawson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-06-04

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 0429939310

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Originally published in 1972, Henry Fielding and the Augustan Ideal Under Stress, focuses upon the various disruptive forces in the literary culture of the Augustan period – upon ‘Nature’s Dance of Death’. His discussion centres on aspects of Fielding’s writing in relation to Augustan culture and civilization. He also relates the works of such Augustans as Pope, Swift and Smollett, as well as some twentieth century writings, to his overall theme. He treats, among other topics the crises in stylistic ‘urbanity’ and in the ‘mock-heroic’ styles of this historically and artistically fascinating period.