Intellectual Work and the Spirit of Capitalism

1. Introductory Remarks: Sociological Allegory in the Age of Weber
Thomas Kemple

Part I. Faust’s Study

2. Polemical Arts of Speaking Sociologically: Weber’s Lectern
Thomas Kemple

3. Casuistic Disciplines of Capitalist Science: Weber’s Bifocals
Thomas Kemple

4. Narrative Conventions of Political Discourse: Weber’s Prism
Thomas Kemple

Part II. Tolstoy’s Keynote

5. The Cosmopolitan Ethics of War and Peace: Weber’s Machine
Thomas Kemple

6. Resurrecting Charisma: Weber’s Pendulum
Thomas Kemple

7. Interim Reflections: Intellectual Work and the Spirit of Capitalism
Thomas Kemple

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Social Theory, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Political Economy, Social Philosophy