Max Weber's Methodology. The Unification of the Cultural and Social Sciences. Von Fritz Ringer.

Sehr gutes Exemplar. - Englisch. - . "Ringer locates the weighty methodological, epistemological, and intellectual issues raised in Weber's philosophy of social science more fully in the context of German academic life in the Wilhelmian era than any previous work in English. Beyond this, he casts enormous light on the issues themselves, drawing comprehensively and critically on hermeneutic sociology, the analytic philosophy of action, the debate over explanation in history, and even legal theory. This is a brief but invaluable book for scholars in both the social sciences and the humanities." - Dennis H. Wong, NY University . (Verlagstext) // INHALT : Acknowledgments ------ Introduction: Interpretation and Explanation ------ Aspects of Weber's Intellectual Field ------ The German Historical Tradition ------ The Threat of 'Positivism' ------ The Revival of the Humanistic Disciplines ------ Weber's Adaptation of Rickert ------ Rickert's Position and Its Problems ------ Weber's Adaptation ------ Against Naturalism, Holism, and Irrationalism ------ Singular Causal Analysis ------ Objective Probability and Adequate Causation ------ The frameworks and Tactics of Causal Analysis ------ Contemporary Formulations ------ Interpretation and Explanation ------ Prom Interpretation to Causal Analysis ------ Interpretive Sociology ------ The Ideal Type and Its Functions ------ Objectivity and Value Neutrality ------ The Two Components of Weber's Position through 1910 ------ The Maxim and Ethos of Value Neutrality ------ Contemporary Formulations ------ From Theory to Practice ------ Neither Marxism nor Idealism ------ From Methodological Individualism to the Comparative ------ Analysis of Structural Change ------ An Example of Weber's Practice: The Protestant Ethic ------ Conclusion ------ Bibliography ------ Index. ISBN 0674556577