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Political Science Democracy

Democracy and the Political in Max Weber's Thought

by (author) Terry Maley

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2011
Category
Democracy, General, Political, Protestant
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781442643369
    Publish Date
    Oct 2011
    List Price
    $72.00

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Max Weber is best known as one of the founders of modern sociology and the author of the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, but he also made important contributions to modern political and democratic theory. In Democracy and the Political in Max Weber's Thought, Terry Maley explores, through a detailed analysis of Weber's writings, the intersection of recent work on Weber and on democratic theory, bridging the gap between these two rapidly expanding areas of scholarship.
Maley critically examines how Weber's realist 'model' of democracy defines and constrains the possibilities for democratic agency in modern liberal-democracies. Maley also looks at how ideas of historical time and memory are constructed in his writings on religion, bureaucracy, and the social sciences. Democracy and the Political in Max Weber's Thought is both an accessible introduction to Weber's political thought and a spirited defense of its continued relevance to debates on democracy.

About the author

 

Terry Maley teaches critical and radical democratic theory and politics in the Political Science Department at York University.

 

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