Michael Symonds
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 339937 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael Symonds |
| NOMBRES | Michael |
| APELLIDO | Symonds |
| FIRMA | SYMONDS M |
| AFILIACIONES | Western Sydney University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9649-8963 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Nature
Romantic nature is understood as an irrational value-sphere. The basic ideal of a dehumanised wilderness is examined through the consideration of this sphere’s origins in the 18th and 19th centuries, with Rousseau, Wordsworth and Kant the main examples employed. The internal values of beauty, innocence, purity and goodness are examined in the light of Weberian understanding, especially in terms of a paradoxical relation with the ethic of brotherl…
Brotherly love and the guilt of modernity
Weber’s understanding of the ethic of brotherliness is articulated first in its religious formations and then in its relation to the value-spheres of modernity. In Weber’s sociology of religion, four forms of brotherly love can be identified - the Puritan, mystical, organic and charismatic-communistic. A further ideal-typical form of ‘genuine’ brotherliness serves as a standard against which the empirical examples are compared. The brotherly ethi…
Home
Home is understood as an irrational value-sphere. Following Weber’s theory, it provides an internal cosmos of meaning that provides salvation from the dominant rationalised spheres of the economy, politics and science/intellectual reason. Using additional Weberian ideas, this internal cosmos is conceptualised as both personal and traditional, in contrast to all the other external value-spheres. Literary examples from Charles Dickens are used to i…
Meaning and the value-spheres of modernity
This chapter will describe how disenchanted modernity is understood by Weber as a series of separate competing value-spheres: the economic, political, intellectual/scientific, erotic and aesthetic. This theory of modernity is set within Weber’s vast sociology of religion and can be regarded as Weber’s attempt to understand how the fundamental human need for meaning, that religion so obviously meets, is manifested within the overall meaninglessnes…
Sport
Sport is also added to the pantheon of value-spheres as an inner cosmos of salvation from the rationalised world. Two qualities of sport are emphasised: it is itself highly rationalised but still separate from the dominant rationalised spheres; and it is both trivial and, within its borders, immensely important. The value-sphere theory is used not only to explain these twin qualities in terms of winning and the rules of the game but also to show …
Weberian Perspective on Home, Nature and Sport
A Weberian Perspective on Home, Nature and Sport
This book extends Max Weber’s theory of the value-spheres of modernity into wholly new areas, showing that the addition of home, nature and sport to Weber’s own list of five spheres (economic, scientific/intellectual, political/legal, erotic and aesthetic) yields original insights into these aspects of modernity and modernity itself. It shows how each of these new spheres is able to create its own ‘inner cosmos’ of salvation from rationalised sen…
Weber's theory of meaning, modernity and the value-spheres
This chapter describes how disenchanted modernity is understood by Weber as a series of separate competing value-spheres: the economic, political, intellectual/scientific, erotic and aesthetic. This theory of modernity is set within Weber’s vast sociology of religion and can be regarded as Weber’s attempt to understand how the fundamental human need for meaning, that religion so obviously meets, is manifested within the overall meaninglessness of…
Max Weber's Theory of Modernity
This book illuminates an important dimension of the work of Max Weber. Weber’s theory of meaning and modernity is articulated through an understanding of his account of the way in which the pursuit of meaning in the modern world has been shaped by the loss of Western religion and how such pursuit gives sense to the phenomena of human suffering and death. Through a close, scholarly reading of Weber’s extensive writings and Vocation Lectures, the a…
Adipose Tissue Biology
The Concept of 'Paradox' in the Work of Max Weber
This article argues that Max Weber's use of the concept of paradox has been relatively under-examined in the secondary literature. It argues that there is a highly distinctive form of paradox that Weber uses extensively throughout his writings. Weber deploys this term in two main senses: as a universal condition of human action; and as a specific way of understanding the logic of western modernity. The article suggests that this latter sense lies…
Heroic Love
This paper examines the concept of brotherly love as utilized by Max Weber in his sociology of religion and, especially, in his famous 'vocational' speeches. It argues that a central concern of Weber in this body of work was the fate of such brotherly love within the history of Western religious and societal rationalization. It also suggests that Weber implicitly advocates such an ethic in his vocation lectures as a means of living a life sensiti…
The Forms of Brotherly Love in Max Weber's Sociology of Religion
This article examines the concept of 'brotherliness' as presented in Max Weber's sociological studies of religion. It argues that Weber presents a complex, if at times implicit, understanding of a number of contrasting forms of brotherliness: charis-matic, Puritan, mystic, and medieval Christian. The article suggests that although these contrasting forms have been largely overlooked by Weberian scholars, they add an important dimension to Weber's…
Nature and Citizenship
The Forms of Brotherly Love in Max Weber's Sociology of Religion
This article examines the concept of 'brotherliness' as presented in Max Weber's sociological studies of religion. It argues that Weber presents a complex, if at times implicit, understanding of a number of contrasting forms of brotherliness: charis-matic, Puritan, mystic, and medieval Christian. The article suggests that although these contrasting forms have been largely overlooked by Weberian scholars, they add an important dimension to Weber's…
The Concept of 'Paradox' in the Work of Max Weber
This article argues that Max Weber's use of the concept of paradox has been relatively under-examined in the secondary literature. It argues that there is a highly distinctive form of paradox that Weber uses extensively throughout his writings. Weber deploys this term in two main senses: as a universal condition of human action; and as a specific way of understanding the logic of western modernity. The article suggests that this latter sense lies…
Heroic Love
This paper examines the concept of brotherly love as utilized by Max Weber in his sociology of religion and, especially, in his famous 'vocational' speeches. It argues that a central concern of Weber in this body of work was the fate of such brotherly love within the history of Western religious and societal rationalization. It also suggests that Weber implicitly advocates such an ethic in his vocation lectures as a means of living a life sensiti…
Nature and Citizenship
The Forms of Brotherly Love in Max Weber's Sociology of Religion
This article examines the concept of 'brotherliness' as presented in Max Weber's sociological studies of religion. It argues that Weber presents a complex, if at times implicit, understanding of a number of contrasting forms of brotherliness: charis-matic, Puritan, mystic, and medieval Christian. The article suggests that although these contrasting forms have been largely overlooked by Weberian scholars, they add an important dimension to Weber's…
Heroic Love
This paper examines the concept of brotherly love as utilized by Max Weber in his sociology of religion and, especially, in his famous 'vocational' speeches. It argues that a central concern of Weber in this body of work was the fate of such brotherly love within the history of Western religious and societal rationalization. It also suggests that Weber implicitly advocates such an ethic in his vocation lectures as a means of living a life sensiti…
The Concept of 'Paradox' in the Work of Max Weber
This article argues that Max Weber's use of the concept of paradox has been relatively under-examined in the secondary literature. It argues that there is a highly distinctive form of paradox that Weber uses extensively throughout his writings. Weber deploys this term in two main senses: as a universal condition of human action; and as a specific way of understanding the logic of western modernity. The article suggests that this latter sense lies…
Adipose Tissue Biology
Max Weber's Theory of Modernity
This book illuminates an important dimension of the work of Max Weber. Weber’s theory of meaning and modernity is articulated through an understanding of his account of the way in which the pursuit of meaning in the modern world has been shaped by the loss of Western religion and how such pursuit gives sense to the phenomena of human suffering and death. Through a close, scholarly reading of Weber’s extensive writings and Vocation Lectures, the a…
Weber's theory of meaning, modernity and the value-spheres
This chapter describes how disenchanted modernity is understood by Weber as a series of separate competing value-spheres: the economic, political, intellectual/scientific, erotic and aesthetic. This theory of modernity is set within Weber’s vast sociology of religion and can be regarded as Weber’s attempt to understand how the fundamental human need for meaning, that religion so obviously meets, is manifested within the overall meaninglessness of…
Nature
Romantic nature is understood as an irrational value-sphere. The basic ideal of a dehumanised wilderness is examined through the consideration of this sphere’s origins in the 18th and 19th centuries, with Rousseau, Wordsworth and Kant the main examples employed. The internal values of beauty, innocence, purity and goodness are examined in the light of Weberian understanding, especially in terms of a paradoxical relation with the ethic of brotherl…
Brotherly love and the guilt of modernity
Weber’s understanding of the ethic of brotherliness is articulated first in its religious formations and then in its relation to the value-spheres of modernity. In Weber’s sociology of religion, four forms of brotherly love can be identified - the Puritan, mystical, organic and charismatic-communistic. A further ideal-typical form of ‘genuine’ brotherliness serves as a standard against which the empirical examples are compared. The brotherly ethi…
Home
Home is understood as an irrational value-sphere. Following Weber’s theory, it provides an internal cosmos of meaning that provides salvation from the dominant rationalised spheres of the economy, politics and science/intellectual reason. Using additional Weberian ideas, this internal cosmos is conceptualised as both personal and traditional, in contrast to all the other external value-spheres. Literary examples from Charles Dickens are used to i…
Meaning and the value-spheres of modernity
This chapter will describe how disenchanted modernity is understood by Weber as a series of separate competing value-spheres: the economic, political, intellectual/scientific, erotic and aesthetic. This theory of modernity is set within Weber’s vast sociology of religion and can be regarded as Weber’s attempt to understand how the fundamental human need for meaning, that religion so obviously meets, is manifested within the overall meaninglessnes…
Sport
Sport is also added to the pantheon of value-spheres as an inner cosmos of salvation from the rationalised world. Two qualities of sport are emphasised: it is itself highly rationalised but still separate from the dominant rationalised spheres; and it is both trivial and, within its borders, immensely important. The value-sphere theory is used not only to explain these twin qualities in terms of winning and the rules of the game but also to show …
Weberian Perspective on Home, Nature and Sport
A Weberian Perspective on Home, Nature and Sport
This book extends Max Weber’s theory of the value-spheres of modernity into wholly new areas, showing that the addition of home, nature and sport to Weber’s own list of five spheres (economic, scientific/intellectual, political/legal, erotic and aesthetic) yields original insights into these aspects of modernity and modernity itself. It shows how each of these new spheres is able to create its own ‘inner cosmos’ of salvation from rationalised sen…
Epistemology (9 obras) · Philosophy (9 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory (7 obras) · Modernity (6 obras) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (5 obras) · Philosophy (3 obras) · Psychology (3 obras) · Aesthetics (2 obras) · Art (2 obras)