This major study of the father of modern sociology explores the intimate relationship between the events of Max Weber's personal history and the development of his thought. In synthesizing these aspects of Weber's life, Mitzman has expanded and refined our understanding of this central twentieth-century figure. When it was first published in 1970, ...
Understood as a metaphor for the human mastery of nature, the myth of Prometheus has long served as a symbol of the modern world. Industrialization, individualism, the triumph of instrumental rationality and technological prowess in every aspect of life, all can be seen as expressions of the Promethean ethic. Yet Arthur Mitzman aims to demonstrate ...
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