| Morris Berman - Philosophy - 1981 - 364 pages
...greatest defenders, Max Weber, in his classic essay, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: "Specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart;...has attained a level of civilization never before achieved."1 It was my grandfather's fortune to be born and raised in a world in which the sacred and... | |
| Jeffrey C. Goldfarb - Family & Relationships - 1982 - 188 pages
...in history . . . For the last stage of this cultural development it might be truly said: 'Specialist without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity...has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.'"21 While we may not wish to concede the totality of Weber's critical conclusion —for,... | |
| Andreas E. Buss - History - 1985 - 140 pages
...civilizations. To be convinced of this, one need only read the last pages of "The Protestant Ethic": "For the last stage of this cultural development, it might...has attained a level of civilization never before achieved."9 Equally, in his political writings, Weber warned his readers about the petrified Western... | |
| Mikulas Teich, Roy Porter - History - 1990 - 360 pages
...the future, or whether at the end of this tremendous development entirely new prophets will arise, or there will be a great rebirth of old ideas and ideals,...has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.'54 Though Weber seems to ha ve thought of the future in terms either of more of the same... | |
| Jeffrey C. Alexander, Steven Seidman - Social Science - 1990 - 388 pages
...the future, or whether at the end of this tremendous development entirely new prophets will arise, or there will be a great rebirth of old ideas and ideals,...has attained a level of civilization never before achieved."10 Curiously, these antiutopian themes surface in the social theory of the Frankfurt School.... | |
| Kurt H. Wolff - Social Science - 140 pages
...the future, or whether at the end of this tremendous development entirely new prophets will arise, or there will be a great rebirth of old ideas and ideals,...has attained a level of civilization never before achieved,"1 But [Weber at once checks himself] this brings us to the world of judgments of value and... | |
| Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein - Business & Economics - 1991 - 256 pages
...asceticism's] laughing heir, the Enlightenment, seems ... to be irretrievably fading . . ." Weber worries that, of the last stage of this cultural development, it...has attained a level of civilization never before achieved".9 Having said this, Weber typically begs off from pursuing the issue on the grounds that... | |
| Peter Hamilton - Sociologists - 1991 - 470 pages
...if neither, mechanized petrification, embellished with a sort of convulsive self importance. For in the last stage of this cultural development, it might...has attained a level of civilization never before achieved."4 One would be hard put to find a more searing indictment of capitalism than this since Marx.... | |
| Peter Hamilton - Sociologists - 1991 - 390 pages
..."For of the last stage of this cultural development [ie the one which was initiated by Puritanism], it might well be truly said: 'Specialists without...this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilisation never before achieved'."44 Tragic thought is synthesising as well as paradoxical. H. Stuart... | |
| Richard J. Bernstein - Philosophy - 1992 - 372 pages
...of convulsive self-importance. For of the last stage of this cultural development, it might well be said: "Specialists without spirit, sensualists without...has attained a level of civilization never before achieved."1" Weber was a relentless critic of the type of philosophy of history, social evolutionism,... | |
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