Max Weber: From History to Modernity

By Bryan S. Turner

Book Overview

This wide-ranging and assured book, written by one of the leading Weber scholars in the English-speaking world, shows us the many sides of Max Weber. The book provides an authoritative guide to the current burning issues in social theory, religion, rationalization, the body, modernization and capitalism. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in Weber's claim that the aim of sociology must be to explain what is distinctive about the times in which we live.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138141666
• ISBN13: 9781138141667
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"