Max Weber’s Theory of Personality

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Copyright

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Dedication

pp.：  5 – 6

Contents

pp.：  7 – 10

Acknowledgements

pp.：  11 – 12

Introduction

pp.：  13 – 26

1. Max Weber’s Theory of Personality

pp.：  13 – 14

2. Individuation

pp.：  15 – 16

3. Politics

pp.：  17 – 17

4. Orientalism

pp.：  18 – 18

5. Organisation of the Book

pp.：  19 – 20

6. Summary of the Chapters

pp.：  21 – 26

1. From the Historical Individual to the Sociological Personality

pp.：  27 – 58

1. Singularisation and Individualisation of History

pp.：  27 – 29

2. The Notion of Individuality in 19th Century Historiography

pp.：  30 – 31

3. The Heidelberg School and the Axiological Foundation of the Historical Individual

pp.：  32 – 38

3.1. Windelband, Rickert and Lask

pp.：  33 – 38

4. Universalism of Values and Anti-Naturalism: Logical Antinomies and Political Implications

pp.：  39 – 41

5. Historical Individual and Subjective Axiology in Max Weber

pp.：  42 – 50

5.1. Subjectivism and Polytheism of Values. Weber between Menger and Nietzsche

pp.：  45 – 50

6. Causality and Rationality Versus Unpredictability and Irrationality of Action

pp.：  51 – 53

7. Towards a Theory of Personality

pp.：  54 – 58

2. A Lexicon of Individuation: Bildung, Religion, Personality

pp.：  59 – 86

1. Introduction

pp.：  59 – 61

2. Religion, between the Individual and Society

pp.：  62 – 64

3. From Magic to Religion: Disenchantment and Rationalisation

pp.：  65 – 66

4. Conceptions of God in the Orient and in the Western World

pp.：  67 – 68

5. The Theodicy of Suffering and the Religions of Redemption

pp.：  69 – 73

5.1. Exemplary Prophecy and Ethical Prophecy: The Individual as Container and as Instrument

pp.：  72 – 73

6. Ascetic and Mystical Orientation

pp.：  74 – 77

6.1. Asceticism, Mysticism and Social Transformation

pp.：  77 – 77

7. Irrationalisation of Ends, Rationalisation of Means: On Formal Rationality

pp.：  78 – 81

8. Religion and Economics: Negative Dialectic and the Birth of Capitalism

pp.：  82 – 86

3. Puritan Personality and Political Leadership of Capital

pp.：  87 – 120

1. A ‘Partial’ Synopsis

pp.：  88 – 94

1.1. The Protestant Diaspora in North America and ‘Political’ Individualism

pp.：  93 – 94

2. Criticisms, Condemnations and Misinterpretations

pp.：  95 – 99

3. Avant le Déluge: An Anachronic Approach to Interpreting “The Protestant Ethic”

pp.：  100 – 108

3.1. First Analepsis: The Freiburg Address

pp.：  101 – 104

3.2. Second Analepsis: Kulturkampf and the Journey to the United States

pp.：  105 – 108

4. Rationalisation and Specialisation

pp.：  109 – 110

5. Weber Versus the Neo-Humanism of Wilhelm von Humboldt

pp.：  111 – 113

6. Weber Versus the Realisation of Individuality in Marx

pp.：  114 – 116

7. Puritan Personality and Political Leadership of Capital

pp.：  117 – 120

4. The Roots of Rationalisation: Ancient Judaism

pp.：  121 – 146

1. Social Stratification in Ancient Palestine

pp.：  123 – 125

2. Jewish Hierocracy: Between Bureaucracy and Charisma

pp.：  126 – 131

2.1. The Circle of ‘Yahweh Intellectuals’: The Levites

pp.：  127 – 127

2.2. The “Titans of Holy Curse”: The Prophets of Doom

pp.：  128 – 131

3. The Historicity of the World and the Dislocation of Authority

pp.：  132 – 134

4. On the Utility and Liability of Marginality for Judaism: The Community of the Covenant and the Pariah-People

pp.：  135 – 140

4.1. Centrality of the Periphery

pp.：  136 – 138

4.2. Ethical Universalism and Religious Particularism of the Pariah-People

pp.：  139 – 140

5. Collective Emancipation Versus Individual Salvation: The Jewish “Personality”

pp.：  141 – 146

5. Paradoxes of Religious Individualism: On Weber’s Sociology of India

pp.：  147 – 170

1. The Sociology of India. Hinduism and Buddhism

pp.：  147 – 146

2. Hinduisation, Church and Sect

pp.：  147 – 149

3. The Caste System

pp.：  150 – 157

3.1. The Brahmanic Hierocracy

pp.：  155 – 157

4. The Dharma of Caste, Karma and Samsara

pp.：  158 – 161

5. The Heterodox Religions: Jainism and Buddhism

pp.：  162 – 166

6. Egotism and Conformism: Religious Individualism in India

pp.：  167 – 170

6. The Land of The ‘Well-Adjusted Man’: Weber’s Sociology of China

pp.：  171 – 204

1. From Feudalism to Patrimonialism

pp.：  172 – 175

2. State Bureaucracy and Political Capitalism

pp.：  176 – 178

3. On the Sacred Nature of Tradition: The Precarious Equilibrium between Centre and Periphery

pp.：  179 – 181

4. Confucianism as a “Religious Ethic for Cultivated Men”

pp.：  182 – 184

5. The Taoist and Buddhist Heterodoxies

pp.：  185 – 187

6. The Theoretical Challenge of Confucian Rationalism

pp.：  188 – 193

6.1. Rational Accomodation to the World Versus Rational Dominion Over the World

pp.：  189 – 193

7. On the Absence of Personality

pp.：  194 – 204

7.1. ‘State of Minority’ and Ascribed Roles

pp.：  198 – 204

7. Politics and Orientalism of the Occidental Personality

pp.：  205 – 226

1. The Protestant Sects and the Puritan Personality

pp.：  207 – 208

2. In the Beginning was Charisma

pp.：  209 – 212

3. Homo Politicus and Homo Puritanus

pp.：  213 – 215

4. The Asiatic Non-Personality

pp.：  216 – 218

5. Homo Asiaticus and Homo Bureaucraticus

pp.：  219 – 221

6. Concluding Remarks: Politics and Orientalism of the Occidental Personality

pp.：  222 – 226

Bibliography

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Subject Index

pp.：  237 – 240

Names Index

pp.：  241 – 241