“A completely different aspect, however, the thoroughly incommensurable one, lies in the imposition of accepting that the torso sees me while I… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“A century ago, in his 1905 classic work The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber argued that striving for… — Scott A. Sandage Copy Share Image
I tend to be a loner I think a lot of social theorists are like that. On one level, the majority… — George Ritzer Copy Share Image
“From Hobbes’s theory of the sovereign ruling by authority to Max Weber 250 years later, defining the state in terms of a… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
“Max Weber, who we met in the previous chapter, provided the most famous and widely accepted definition of the state, identifying it… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“It caused my opposition to any ideologies—Marxist, Fascist, National Socialist, what you will—because they were incompatible with science in the rational sense… — eric voegelin Copy Share Image
“But, as the conflict-studies scholar Jayne Docherty argues, the F.B.I.’s approach was doomed from the outset. In “Learning Lessons from Waco”—one of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a democratic society, as Max Weber said, what is possible is only possible because some people have demanded the impossible. The… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
“I think, if people actually read Calvin, rather than read Max Weber, he would be rebranded. He is a very respectable thinker.… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“If, as Max Weber contended, science, modernity and rationalism have disenchanted the world and swept it clean of gods, spirits and magic… — Cameron Adams Copy Share Image
“Thomas Hobbes said that man is a wolve for anothe one. It seems to me that this became the basic foundation ideology… — Steinar Stjernø Copy Share Image
Max Weber was right in subscribing to the view that one need not be Caesar in order to understand Caesar. But there… — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
“Ethnographer Clifford Geertz says: “Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun,… — Valerie Raleigh Yow Copy Share Image
“For realists, the state is the main actor and sovereignty is its distinguishing trait. The meaning of the sovereign state is inextricably… — John Baylis Copy Share Image
Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
“Although many sociologists still echo Max Weber’s (1864–1920) claim that capitalism originated in the Protestant Reformation, capitalism actually originated in the “depths”… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
