Max Weber's 'science As A Vocation' (Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory)

Max Weber's lecture 'science as a Vocation' is a classic of social thought, in which central questions are posed about the nature of social and political thought and action. The lecture has often taken to be a summation of Weber's thought. It can also be argued that, together with the responses of its admirers and critics, it provides a focus for discussion of the nature of modernity and its political consequences, and of the philosophical and political implications of the social or human sciences. This volume provides a full, clear, revised translation of the lecture, together with translations from the German of key contributions to the lively debate that followed its publication. The book concludes with a substantial essay on the current significance of the lecture, which discusses its relevance to the debates about the nature of science as a cultural phenomenon; the disjunction between science and nature; Weber's conception of the disenchantment of the world; the division of scientific labour; and the fundamental nature and place of sociology.

• • Author: Peter Lassman, Irving Velody, Herminio Martins
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Aug 04, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 236 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1138786217
• • ISBN-13: 9781138786219