TY  - GEN
T1  - Politics, death, and the devil : self and power in Max Weber and Thomas Mann
A1  - Goldman, Harvey
LA  - English
PP  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
YR  - 1992
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm44954903
AB  - This sequel to Harvey Goldman's well-received Max Weber and Thomas Mann continues his rich exploration of the political and cultural critiques embodied in the more mature writings of these two authors. Combining social and political thought, intellectual history, and literary interpretation, Goldman examines in particular Weber's "Science as a Vocation" and "Politics as a Vocation" and Mann's The Magic Mountain and Doctor Faustus.Goldman deals with the ways in which Weber and Mann sought an antidote to personal and cultural weakness through "practices" for generating strength, mastery, and power, drawing primarily on ascetic traditions at a time when the vitality of other German traditions was disappearing. Power and mastery concerned both Weber and Mann, especially as they tried to resolve problems of politics and culture in Germany. Although their resolutions of the problems they confronted seem inadequate, they show the significance of linking social and political thought to conceptions of self and active worldly practices.Trenchant and illuminating, Goldman's book is essential reading for anyone interested in political theory, social thought, and the intellectual history of Germany.
OP  - 386
CN  - JC263.W42 G65 1992eb
SN  - 9780520912373
SN  - 0520912373
SN  - 0585118469
SN  - 9780585118468
SN  - 0520077504
KW  - Weber, Max, : 1864-1920 : Contributions in political science.
KW  - Mann, Thomas, : 1875-1955 : Political and social views.
KW  - Mann, Thomas, : 1875-1955
KW  - Weber, Max, : 1864-1920
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Anthropology : Cultural.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Public Policy : Cultural Policy.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Popular Culture.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
KW  - Political and social views
KW  - Political science
KW  - Cultuurkritiek.
KW  - Zelf.
KW  - Duitsland.
KW  - Political Theory of the State.
KW  - Political Science.
KW  - Law, Politics & Government.
ER  -