1st Edition
A Weberian Perspective on Home, Nature and Sport Disenchantment and Salvation
By Michael Symonds
Copyright 2024
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book extends Max Weber’s theory of the value-spheres of modernity into wholly new areas, showing that the addition of home, nature and sport to Weber’s own list of five spheres (economic, scientific/intellectual, political/legal, erotic and aesthetic) yields original insights into these aspects of modernity and modernity itself. It shows how each of these new spheres is able to create its own... Read more
1. Introduction: An Invitation
Part 1: The Weberian Perspective
2. Meaning and the Value-Spheres of Modernity
3. Brotherly Love and the Guilt of Modernity
Part 2: The Additional Value-Spheres
4. Home
5. Nature
6. Sport
Biography
Michael Symonds is Adjunct Fellow with the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University, Australia. He is the author of Max Weber’s Theory of Modernity and The Appeal of Art in Modernity.
