124 Pages
by
Routledge
Max Weber: The Lawyer as Social thinker aims to relate the categories of Weber's social thinking to the intellectual context of legal thinking and theory in which he was educated. Its interpretive aim is to show how knowledge of these relations illuminates our understanding of Weber's own intentions. By comparing Weber's social theory of the teleological kind favoured by his contemporaries, which... Read more
Preface 1. Introduction 2. Common Starting Points: The World Created by Purpose and the Concept of Action 3. Interests and Ideals 4. The Commands of Morality 5. Authority: States, Charisma, and Recht 6. Cause 7. Abstraction 8. Epilogue References Appendix
Biography
Frank Parkin
'Enormously entertaining and irreverent' - Frank Webster, THES
