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  • The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt

    Edited by Peter Baehr, Philip Walsh ...
    Series series
    As recently as 2000, Hannah Arendt was considered an esoteric author within the fields of humanities and social science. Since that time, Arendt has moved from the fringes of intellectual discussion toward its center. A number of developments have driven this reappraisal: the renewed respectability of the concept of totalitarianism; the appearance of post-Nazi/Bolshevik genocidal movements in ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt

    Edited by Peter Baehr, Philip Walsh ...
    Series Book 1 - Anthem Companions to Sociology
    The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt offers a unique collection of essays on one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers. The companion encompasses Arendt’s most salient arguments and major works – The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, Eichmann in Jerusalem, On Revolution and The Life of the Mind. The volume also examines Arendt’s intellectual relationships with Max Weber, ... Read more

    $27.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt

    Edited by Peter Baehr, Philip Walsh ...
    Series series
    As recently as 2000, Hannah Arendt was considered an esoteric author within the fields of humanities and social science. Since that time, Arendt has moved from the fringes of intellectual discussion toward its center. A number of developments have driven this reappraisal: the renewed respectability of the concept of totalitarianism; the appearance of post-Nazi/Bolshevik genocidal movements in ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism

    and Other Writings

    by Max Weber, Peter Baehr, Gordon C. Wells ...
    Translated by Peter Baehr, Gordon C. Wells ...
    In The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work and the fulfillment of one's worldly duties.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Caesar and the Fading of the Roman World

    A Study in Republicanism and Caesarism

    Edited by Peter Baehr ...
    For many centuries, Julius Caesar was a name that evoked strong feelings among educated people. Some of these responses were complimentary, but others came from the point of view of "political republicanism"—which envisaged Caesar as a historical symbol for some of the most dangerous tendencies a polity could experience. Caesar represented everything that republicans detested—corruption, demagogy, ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Social Sciences

    by Peter Baehr ...
    This book examines the nature of totalitarianism as interpreted by some of the finest minds of the twentieth century. It focuses on Hannah Arendt's claim that totalitarianism was an entirely unprecedented regime and that the social sciences had integrally misconstrued it. A sociologist who is a critical admirer of Arendt, Baehr looks sympathetically at Arendt's objections to social science and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Caesarism, Charisma and Fate

    Historical Sources and Modern Resonances in the Work of Max Weber

    Edited by Peter Baehr ...
    "How do writers, marginalized by the authoritarian state in which they live, intervene in the political process? They cannot do so directly because they are not politicians. Other modes of engagement are possible, however. A writer may take up arms and become a revolutionary. Or, as Max Weber did, he may try to influence politics by playing the role of constitutional advisor, or by seeking to ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Unmasking Style in Social Theory

    by Peter Baehr ...
    Series series Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
    This book examines the nature of unmasking in social theory, in revolutionary movements and in popular culture. Unmasking is not the same as scientific refutation or principled disagreement. When people unmask, they claim to rip off a disguise, revealing the true beneath the feigned. The author distinguishes two basic types of unmasking. The first, aimed at persons or groups, exposes hypocrisy and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Founders, Classics, Canons

    Modern Disputes Over the Origins and Appraisal of Sociology's Heritage

    by Peter Baehr ...
    Founders, classics, and canons have been vitally important in helping to frame sociology's identity. Within the academy today, a number of positions feminist, postmodernist, postcolonial question the status of "tradition."In Founders, Classics, Canons, Peter Baehr defends the continuing importance of sociology's classics and traditions in a university education. Baehr offers arguments against ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

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