The Political and Social Theory of Max Weber: Collected Essays.

1990 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 911
Author(s):  
Toby E. Huff ◽  
Wolfgang J. Mommsen ◽  
Lawrence A. Scaff
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
The Political

scholarly journals Social Order and Political Theology in the Game of Thrones: What Makes the Cult Series Interesting for Theoretical Sociology

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-159
Author(s):  
Oleg Kil'dyushov
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Political Theology ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Thomas Hobbes ◽  
Carl Schmitt ◽  
Religious Fundamentalism ◽  
The Political ◽  
Fantasy Novels ◽  
Game Of Thrones

The paper is a review of a number of writings in the humanities and in social science devoted to George Martin’s series of epic fantasy novels A Song of Ice and Fire, and the television-serial drama Game of Thrones. At the beginning, we analyze the researchers’ most heuristically-fruitful intellectual reactions to Game of Thrones, that is, specific products such as texts that may be of interest to social theory. The main part of the article considers the institutional and discursive order of George Martin’s saga through the research lens of the classics of modern social theory, such as Niccolo Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, and Max Weber. The paper then briefly touches upon the religious situation in Westeros, whose system of values and norms is paradoxically characterized by both post-secularism and a surge of religious fundamentalism. As a next step, it analyzes the political theology in the Game of Thrones, which is considered within the perspective of a transcendental legitimization of politics as proposed by Carl Schmitt. In conclusion, the paper considers Westeros’ cognitive landscape which consists of various competing epistemic sets (maesters, septons, white walkers, etc.), and structurally reproduces the situation in the societies of late modernity.

The Political and Social Theory of Max Weber.

1991 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Lelan McLemore ◽  
Wolfgang J. Mommsen ◽  
Lawrence A. Scaff
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
The Political

The political and social theory of Max Weber: collected essays

1990 ◽  
Vol 27 (05) ◽  
pp. 27-3013-27-3013 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
The Political

Interview with Vicki Kirby

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 261-271
Author(s):  
Daniel McLoughlin
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
New Materialisms ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

In this interview, Vicki Kirby discusses her research into the relationship between nature and culture, focusing in particular on her recent edited collection, What If Culture Was Nature All Along? The volume appears in the ‘New Materialisms’ series, and so the interview begins by situating the collection with respect to the recent materialist turn in social theory. Kirby discusses the influence of deconstruction on her thought, and the way that she draws upon Derrida to think through recent research in the life sciences and its implications for understanding the relationship between matter, life, and communication. She also goes into the political implications of her work and the relationship between biopolitics and biodeconstruction.

Liverpool Merchants in 19th-Century Niger Delta

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 310-340
Author(s):  
Nimi Wariboko
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Business Ethics ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
The Political ◽  
Religious Ethics ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Christian Missions ◽  
The Impact

Abstract How does religion or worldview affect business practices and ethics? This tradition of inquiry goes back, at least, to Max Weber who, in the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, explored the impact of theological suppositions on capitalist economic development. But the connection can also go the other way. So the focus of inquiry can become: How does business ethics or practices affect ethics in a given nation or corporation? This paper inquires into how the political and economic conditions created and sustained by nineteenth-century trading community in the Niger Delta influenced religious practices or ethics of Christian missionaries. This approach to mission study is necessary not only because we want to further understand the work of Christian missions and also to tease out the effect of business ethics on religious ethics, but also because Christian missionaries came to the Niger Delta in the nineteenth century behind foreign merchants.

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