Peter Ghosh
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3685864 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Peter Ghosh |
| NOMBRES | Peter |
| APELLIDO | Ghosh |
| FIRMA | GHOSH P |
| AFILIACIONES | St. John's College |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Disraeli and the Eastern Question 1875‒78
This essay considers an aspect of the great ‘Eastern’ (Ottoman and Balkan) crisis of 1875‒78, which has never been properly treated before: the policies of Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield), that secured a great British triumph, at once peaceful and painless. His actions were original and unusual—as one might expect—but they also drew on long established ideas about British strength in international relations. What was original was the emphasis he …
Mill before Liberalism (parts I and II)
Current understanding of Mill as a founding father of liberalism is a Cold War creation. Discarding this conception opens the way to a general reassessment of his thought: who was the historical Mill? He did not define himself as liberal and there is no simple template. Most obviously he is a pluralist, defined by a plural heritage received through his father. This framework permitted great creativity in political and social theory, but it was di…
Political and Unpolitical Germany
This paper presents a comparison of Max Weber and Thomas Mann from a historical perspective. It does not seek to override the obvious differences between them, but it suggests that these differences reflect on the remarkable diversity and plurality of a common context: Germany seen as a community of Kultur. Furthermore, very different views of the world could still lead to significant coincidence. This is particularly true of their views on polit…
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904–5/1920)
The Protestant Ethic (PE) is the most misunderstood text in the canon of modern political and social theory and for a good reason: it compresses most of the thought of an inter-disciplinary polymath into the shortest possible space. Weber was not a systematic thinker and there is no single PE ‘thesis’. Instead the text is a set of inter-linked ideas with multiple foci, and this explains the lay-out of the exposition here. There are four sections:…
Gibt es bei Max Weber eine Staatstheorie
Die unverkennbaren Veränderungen der epistemologischen Grundlagen und politisch-sozialen Ordnungsentwürfe um und nach 1900 haben auch und vor allem in der deutschen Geschichtswissenschaft ihren Niederschlag und prominenten Platz gefunden. Der von hier ausgehende Anstoß, der auf die Bewältigung sowohl der Industriemoderne als auch des Erbes des deutschen Idealismus zurückzuführen ist, hat weit bis ins 20. Jahrhundert gewirkt. Er prägt auf seine We…
Protestantismus, asketischer
Der asketische Protestantismus ist der zentrale historische Gegenstand von Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus (1904/05). Er umfasst die vier in dieser Schrift behandelten religiösen Strömungen Calvinismus, Pietismus, Methodismus und Täufertum, von denen Weber glaubte, er könne sie aus guten Gründen »als eine Gesamtmasse« zusammenfassen (RS I, 164). Es ist dies ein klassischer Fall von Begriffsdesign, der lebhaft veranschauli…
Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus (1904–05; 1920)
Der berühmte Text Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus erschien erstmals 1904/05 als Folge von zwei Abhandlungen im Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft. Die Niederschrift des Werks, dessen Hintergründe uns weiter unten beschäftigen werden, dürfte höchstwahrscheinlich zwischen 1902 und 1905 erfolgt sein, nachdem Weber aus Italien nach Heidelberg zurückgekehrt war. In jenen Jahren nahm Weber die Arbeit am Text immer wieder auf, von dr…
Max Weber’s Ethics for the Modern World
Max Weber was an extremely important ethical thinker, as is suggested by the title of his most famous work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Confronted by the perceived breakdown of universally accepted, religiously based ethical codes, he proposed a two-tier scheme of ethics: impersonal, professional, technically, and legally appropriate behavior in the public sphere of employment, alongside wide tolerance of “subjectivist” sel…
History and theory in Max Weber’s ‘Protestant Ethic’
It is an old cliché that Weber’s ‘Protestant Ethic’ (PE) is historically wrong or deficient. Recent work by German sociologists has reinforced this view, with the aim of further demoting the text within Weber’s oeuvre: as if it was a work of bad history and nothing more. This paper takes a contrary view. It argues that the text is neither ‘wrong’ (to say so is a category error) nor is it confined to the past. Rather, it is much misunderstood, and…
Constructing Marx in the history of ideas
Publication of a new general biography of Marx is a reminder that no intellectual biography exists. This is an extraordinary omission, and the present article offers a draft outline of such a biography. Some central elements from established twentieth-century views of Marx are reviewed and upheld, such as the centrality of his early ideas before 1848 and the essential unity of his thought overall. Yet there are also substantial revisions and clar…
Max Weber in Context
Max Webers historische Sozialökonomie / L'économie de Max Weber entre histoire et sociologie by Hinnerk Bruhns (review)
264 Max Weber Studies abundantly, all the kinds of extradisci call for. Their framework excluded it—little of it had to do with 'dis ciplinary history.' But if one restricts one's account of 'historiogra phy' to disciplinary history narrowly conceived, one ought not to be shocked, shocked, to discover that extradisciplinary considerations do not play a particularly large role. Stephen Turner University of South Florida Stephen Turner Hinnerk Brah…
Begriffe
Weder ›Arbeit‹ noch ›Beruf‹ sind soziologische Grundbegriffe bei Max Weber. Aber das Werk Max Webers hat der Arbeits- und Berufssoziologie in der Folgezeit wichtige Impulse verliehen, obgleich er nicht in die klassischen Fußstapfen tritt, in denen sich die Diskussion der beiden Begriffe bis dahin bewegt hatte: Weber fasst den Menschen weder anthropologisch als ›Arbeitswesen‹, also als ›homo laborans‹ auf, noch definiert er ihn philosophisch durch…
Werke und Werkgruppen
Max Webers Geschichte der Handelsgesellschaften im Mittelalter ist ein juristisches und rechtsgeschichtliches Werk. Basierend auf seiner Inauguraldissertation und Grundlage für seine Habilitation, leitet es knapp her, wie die Institutionen der Kommandit-(KG) und der offenen Handelsgesellschaften (OHG) in Abgrenzung sowohl vom römischen als auch vom zeitgenössischen (d. h. gründerzeitlichen) Gesellschaftsrecht aus den Verhältnissen der italienisch…
Proem
This Proem introduces the next section of this book, which looks at the “second history” of the Protestant Ethic, covering the years between its initial publication and the amended text which coincided with Weber's early death in 1920.
Politics and Nationality
Beyond Methodology. Max Weber’s Conception of Wissenschaft
Die heutige Bedeutung Max Webers beruht vor allem darauf, dass er gerade unter modernen Bedingungen, die sich durch Spezialisierung und kulturelle Differenzierung auszeichnen und gegenüber jeglichem Universalismus abweisend sind, dennoch ein universeller Denker ist. Mit Blick auf seine Schriften zu Wissenschaft und Hochschulbildung wird behauptet, dass Weber eine bestimmte Konzeption von Wissenschaft besaß, die erheblich weiter gefasst ist als se…
A Historian Reads Max Weber
Max Weber and The Protestant Ethic
This book presents a new portrait of Max Weber, one of the most prestigious social theorists in recent history, using his most famous work, The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism, as its central point of reference. It offers an intellectual biography of Weber framed along historical lines - something which has never been done before. It re-evaluates The Protestant Ethic - a text surprisingly neglected by scholars - supplying a missin…
Political Thought that Mattered Politically
Classic Wine in a New, Bigger and Better Bottle
Hugh Trevor-Roper and the history of ideas
A wave of recent publication connected to Hugh Trevor-Roper offers cause to take stock of his life and legacy. He is an awkward subject because his output was so protean, but a compelling one because of his significance for the resurgence of the history of ideas in Britain after 1945. The article argues that the formative period in Trevor-Roper's life was 1945–57, a period curiously neglected hit her to. It was at this time that the pioneered a h…
Max Weber, Werner Sombart and the Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft
The article starts from an examination of the authorship of the ‘Geleitwort’, the programmatic statement which appeared in the Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft when it came under new editors in 1904. Recently scholars have begun to view it as an important text by Max Weber recovered from obscurity, but this is a mistake. Examination of major contemporary works by Weber and Werner Sombart – the obvious co-author – as well as the first public disclosu…
Politics and culture in Victorian Britain
1. A Brief Word on 'Politics' and 'Culture' 2. Colin Matthew 1941-1999 3. Colin Matthew: A Memoir 4. Colin Matthew: A Bibliography 5. Gladstone and Peel 6. Gladstone and a Liberal Theory of International Relations 7. The Enfranchisement of the Urban Poor in Victorian Britain 8. The Defection of the Middle Class: The Endowed Schools Act, the Liberal Party, and the 1874 Election 9. Liberal Passions: Reason and Emotion in Late and Post-Victorian Lib…
The place of Judaism in Max Weber’s Protestant Ethic
One of the most striking and yet neglected strands in Max Weber’s Protestant Ethic is the evident interest it displays in the affinity between Puritanism and Judaism. Whilst it would be an exaggeration to describe this as a principal theme, still it is one which recurs, and leads to one of those little essays masquerading as footnotes that highlight points in the text where Weber’s interests exceed the bounds of his avowed historical subject [XXI…
Max Weber and The Protestant Ethic
This book presents a new portrait of Max Weber, one of the most prestigious social theorists in recent history, using his most famous work, The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism, as its central point of reference. It offers an intellectual biography of Weber framed along historical lines - something which has never been done before. It re-evaluates The Protestant Ethic - a text surprisingly neglected by scholars - supplying a missin…
Some Problems with Talcott Parsons
It is a truth sometimes acknowledged in private but not publicly discussed that the only English translation of the most famous work of twentieth century historical sociology is seriously defective. The purpose of this paper is to establish the nature of the defects and to suggest some of their causes and consequences. As I shall seek to show, these involve rather more than matters of technical linguistic competence in German. Although Parsons' t…
Gramscian hegemony
Max Weber, Werner Sombart and the Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft
The article starts from an examination of the authorship of the ‘Geleitwort’, the programmatic statement which appeared in the Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft when it came under new editors in 1904. Recently scholars have begun to view it as an important text by Max Weber recovered from obscurity, but this is a mistake. Examination of major contemporary works by Weber and Werner Sombart – the obvious co-author – as well as the first public disclosu…
Mill before Liberalism (parts I and II)
Current understanding of Mill as a founding father of liberalism is a Cold War creation. Discarding this conception opens the way to a general reassessment of his thought: who was the historical Mill? He did not define himself as liberal and there is no simple template. Most obviously he is a pluralist, defined by a plural heritage received through his father. This framework permitted great creativity in political and social theory, but it was di…
Political and Unpolitical Germany
This paper presents a comparison of Max Weber and Thomas Mann from a historical perspective. It does not seek to override the obvious differences between them, but it suggests that these differences reflect on the remarkable diversity and plurality of a common context: Germany seen as a community of Kultur. Furthermore, very different views of the world could still lead to significant coincidence. This is particularly true of their views on polit…
History and theory in Max Weber’s ‘Protestant Ethic’
It is an old cliché that Weber’s ‘Protestant Ethic’ (PE) is historically wrong or deficient. Recent work by German sociologists has reinforced this view, with the aim of further demoting the text within Weber’s oeuvre: as if it was a work of bad history and nothing more. This paper takes a contrary view. It argues that the text is neither ‘wrong’ (to say so is a category error) nor is it confined to the past. Rather, it is much misunderstood, and…
Constructing Marx in the history of ideas
Publication of a new general biography of Marx is a reminder that no intellectual biography exists. This is an extraordinary omission, and the present article offers a draft outline of such a biography. Some central elements from established twentieth-century views of Marx are reviewed and upheld, such as the centrality of his early ideas before 1848 and the essential unity of his thought overall. Yet there are also substantial revisions and clar…
Classic Wine in a New, Bigger and Better Bottle
Hugh Trevor-Roper and the history of ideas
A wave of recent publication connected to Hugh Trevor-Roper offers cause to take stock of his life and legacy. He is an awkward subject because his output was so protean, but a compelling one because of his significance for the resurgence of the history of ideas in Britain after 1945. The article argues that the formative period in Trevor-Roper's life was 1945–57, a period curiously neglected hit her to. It was at this time that the pioneered a h…
Citizen Or Subject? Michel Foucault in the History of Ideas
Distinguant deux approches possibles de Foucault, l'une fondee sur une conception teleologique du passe de l'historien, l'autre fondee sur le present de sa pensee au sein de l'histoire des idees du XX e siecle, l'A. etudie l'interpretation de l'oeuvre de Foucault developpee par Deleuze a partir des trois dimensions et structures internes que sont la connaissance, le pouvoir et le soi. Examinant la relation de Foucault a la tradition francaise rep…
Some Problems with Talcott Parsons
It is a truth sometimes acknowledged in private but not publicly discussed that the only English translation of the most famous work of twentieth century historical sociology is seriously defective. The purpose of this paper is to establish the nature of the defects and to suggest some of their causes and consequences. As I shall seek to show, these involve rather more than matters of technical linguistic competence in German. Although Parsons' t…
Gibbon's First Thoughts
While Gibbon's Roman History and his Memoirs are established as classic works in any canon of English or historical literature, the first of his three books, the youthful Essai sur l'Étude de la Littérature (1758–61), remains the victim of comparative neglect. There has been no edition of this work since 1814, but we can ill afford to ignore a text which is at once the first fruit of Gibbon's intellectual ‘creation’ at Lausanne in the 1750s, and …
Citizen Or Subject? Michel Foucault in the History of Ideas
Distinguant deux approches possibles de Foucault, l'une fondee sur une conception teleologique du passe de l'historien, l'autre fondee sur le present de sa pensee au sein de l'histoire des idees du XX e siecle, l'A. etudie l'interpretation de l'oeuvre de Foucault developpee par Deleuze a partir des trois dimensions et structures internes que sont la connaissance, le pouvoir et le soi. Examinant la relation de Foucault a la tradition francaise rep…
Gramscian hegemony
Politics and culture in Victorian Britain
1. A Brief Word on 'Politics' and 'Culture' 2. Colin Matthew 1941-1999 3. Colin Matthew: A Memoir 4. Colin Matthew: A Bibliography 5. Gladstone and Peel 6. Gladstone and a Liberal Theory of International Relations 7. The Enfranchisement of the Urban Poor in Victorian Britain 8. The Defection of the Middle Class: The Endowed Schools Act, the Liberal Party, and the 1874 Election 9. Liberal Passions: Reason and Emotion in Late and Post-Victorian Lib…
The place of Judaism in Max Weber’s Protestant Ethic
One of the most striking and yet neglected strands in Max Weber’s Protestant Ethic is the evident interest it displays in the affinity between Puritanism and Judaism. Whilst it would be an exaggeration to describe this as a principal theme, still it is one which recurs, and leads to one of those little essays masquerading as footnotes that highlight points in the text where Weber’s interests exceed the bounds of his avowed historical subject [XXI…
Max Weber, Werner Sombart and the Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft
The article starts from an examination of the authorship of the ‘Geleitwort’, the programmatic statement which appeared in the Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft when it came under new editors in 1904. Recently scholars have begun to view it as an important text by Max Weber recovered from obscurity, but this is a mistake. Examination of major contemporary works by Weber and Werner Sombart – the obvious co-author – as well as the first public disclosu…
Hugh Trevor-Roper and the history of ideas
A wave of recent publication connected to Hugh Trevor-Roper offers cause to take stock of his life and legacy. He is an awkward subject because his output was so protean, but a compelling one because of his significance for the resurgence of the history of ideas in Britain after 1945. The article argues that the formative period in Trevor-Roper's life was 1945–57, a period curiously neglected hit her to. It was at this time that the pioneered a h…
Political Thought that Mattered Politically
Classic Wine in a New, Bigger and Better Bottle
Begriffe
Weder ›Arbeit‹ noch ›Beruf‹ sind soziologische Grundbegriffe bei Max Weber. Aber das Werk Max Webers hat der Arbeits- und Berufssoziologie in der Folgezeit wichtige Impulse verliehen, obgleich er nicht in die klassischen Fußstapfen tritt, in denen sich die Diskussion der beiden Begriffe bis dahin bewegt hatte: Weber fasst den Menschen weder anthropologisch als ›Arbeitswesen‹, also als ›homo laborans‹ auf, noch definiert er ihn philosophisch durch…
Werke und Werkgruppen
Max Webers Geschichte der Handelsgesellschaften im Mittelalter ist ein juristisches und rechtsgeschichtliches Werk. Basierend auf seiner Inauguraldissertation und Grundlage für seine Habilitation, leitet es knapp her, wie die Institutionen der Kommandit-(KG) und der offenen Handelsgesellschaften (OHG) in Abgrenzung sowohl vom römischen als auch vom zeitgenössischen (d. h. gründerzeitlichen) Gesellschaftsrecht aus den Verhältnissen der italienisch…
Proem
This Proem introduces the next section of this book, which looks at the “second history” of the Protestant Ethic, covering the years between its initial publication and the amended text which coincided with Weber's early death in 1920.
Politics and Nationality
Beyond Methodology. Max Weber’s Conception of Wissenschaft
Die heutige Bedeutung Max Webers beruht vor allem darauf, dass er gerade unter modernen Bedingungen, die sich durch Spezialisierung und kulturelle Differenzierung auszeichnen und gegenüber jeglichem Universalismus abweisend sind, dennoch ein universeller Denker ist. Mit Blick auf seine Schriften zu Wissenschaft und Hochschulbildung wird behauptet, dass Weber eine bestimmte Konzeption von Wissenschaft besaß, die erheblich weiter gefasst ist als se…
A Historian Reads Max Weber
Max Weber and The Protestant Ethic
This book presents a new portrait of Max Weber, one of the most prestigious social theorists in recent history, using his most famous work, The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism, as its central point of reference. It offers an intellectual biography of Weber framed along historical lines - something which has never been done before. It re-evaluates The Protestant Ethic - a text surprisingly neglected by scholars - supplying a missin…
Max Webers historische Sozialökonomie / L'économie de Max Weber entre histoire et sociologie by Hinnerk Bruhns (review)
264 Max Weber Studies abundantly, all the kinds of extradisci call for. Their framework excluded it—little of it had to do with 'dis ciplinary history.' But if one restricts one's account of 'historiogra phy' to disciplinary history narrowly conceived, one ought not to be shocked, shocked, to discover that extradisciplinary considerations do not play a particularly large role. Stephen Turner University of South Florida Stephen Turner Hinnerk Brah…
Max Weber in Context
Constructing Marx in the history of ideas
Publication of a new general biography of Marx is a reminder that no intellectual biography exists. This is an extraordinary omission, and the present article offers a draft outline of such a biography. Some central elements from established twentieth-century views of Marx are reviewed and upheld, such as the centrality of his early ideas before 1848 and the essential unity of his thought overall. Yet there are also substantial revisions and clar…
History and theory in Max Weber’s ‘Protestant Ethic’
It is an old cliché that Weber’s ‘Protestant Ethic’ (PE) is historically wrong or deficient. Recent work by German sociologists has reinforced this view, with the aim of further demoting the text within Weber’s oeuvre: as if it was a work of bad history and nothing more. This paper takes a contrary view. It argues that the text is neither ‘wrong’ (to say so is a category error) nor is it confined to the past. Rather, it is much misunderstood, and…
Max Weber’s Ethics for the Modern World
Max Weber was an extremely important ethical thinker, as is suggested by the title of his most famous work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Confronted by the perceived breakdown of universally accepted, religiously based ethical codes, he proposed a two-tier scheme of ethics: impersonal, professional, technically, and legally appropriate behavior in the public sphere of employment, alongside wide tolerance of “subjectivist” sel…
Protestantismus, asketischer
Der asketische Protestantismus ist der zentrale historische Gegenstand von Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus (1904/05). Er umfasst die vier in dieser Schrift behandelten religiösen Strömungen Calvinismus, Pietismus, Methodismus und Täufertum, von denen Weber glaubte, er könne sie aus guten Gründen »als eine Gesamtmasse« zusammenfassen (RS I, 164). Es ist dies ein klassischer Fall von Begriffsdesign, der lebhaft veranschauli…
Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus (1904–05; 1920)
Der berühmte Text Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus erschien erstmals 1904/05 als Folge von zwei Abhandlungen im Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft. Die Niederschrift des Werks, dessen Hintergründe uns weiter unten beschäftigen werden, dürfte höchstwahrscheinlich zwischen 1902 und 1905 erfolgt sein, nachdem Weber aus Italien nach Heidelberg zurückgekehrt war. In jenen Jahren nahm Weber die Arbeit am Text immer wieder auf, von dr…
Gibt es bei Max Weber eine Staatstheorie
Die unverkennbaren Veränderungen der epistemologischen Grundlagen und politisch-sozialen Ordnungsentwürfe um und nach 1900 haben auch und vor allem in der deutschen Geschichtswissenschaft ihren Niederschlag und prominenten Platz gefunden. Der von hier ausgehende Anstoß, der auf die Bewältigung sowohl der Industriemoderne als auch des Erbes des deutschen Idealismus zurückzuführen ist, hat weit bis ins 20. Jahrhundert gewirkt. Er prägt auf seine We…
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