Max Webers Theory of Personality: Individuation, Politics and Orientalism in the Sociology of Religion (Studies in Critical Social Sciences)

Max Weber's writings in "The Sociology of Religion" are today acknowledged as a classic of the social sciences in the twentieth century. They are key texts for understanding Weber s central sociological concepts concerning Western and Eastern civilisations . This book argues that the concept and problematic of personality plays a pivotal role within these works. Providing a detailed reconstruction of this concept within Weber s systematic studies of world religions as well as throughout his methodological and political writings, this book shows its complex development within three strictly related problematics associated with Weber s influential comparative historical sociology and theory of social action individuation, politics and orientalism. Together they shape and constitute what is distinctive in Max Weber s theory of personality."