Awards

• Winner of Institute of Intellectual History Istvan Hont Prize 2014
• Winner of Institute of Intellectual History Istvan Hont Prize 2014.
• Winner of Winner of the 2014 Istvan Hont Memorial Prize.

Overview

Full Product Details

9780198702528

Table of Contents

Reviews

in this stylish and extraordinarily detailed new intellectual history ... Ghosh's answer to Weber's uniqueness is beguilingly simple, and gloriously revisionist in overturning most established scholarship Duncan Kelly, The Times Literary Supplement Let it be said at once: this breath-taking book is a really great success - rewarding and obligatory reading not only for anyone who is interested in the Protestant Ethic or Max Weber, but for everyone who grapples with the theory of the project of (Western) modernity ... It is already clear that in future there can be no avoiding Ghosh's brilliant twin history , both because of its exact textual labour and also because of its truly Teutonic erudition ... Yet this book is not only extraordinary because of the overwhelming wealth of the material it draws upon. In the exactitude of the textual analysis, which lays bare [Weber's] anticipations and backward glances, allusions and references, intellectual dependency and cross-connections, it is a brilliant achievement in terms of method, while at the same time taking us into the deepest strata of intellectual development. Thomas Sokoll, H-Soz-u-Kult [translated] superb and eminently scholarly Johannes Zachhuber, Marginalia the most comprehensive and illuminating work on Max Weber ever published. Keith Tribe, History A review like this cannot sum up the wealth of food for thought and for debate Ghosh offers. His book's final words about Weber make an excellent case for studying him: 'Never was there anyone more present on the page, on the screen, and above all in our minds, than he is today'. Hans-Jurgen Wolff, Theologische Literaturzeitung [a] stunning work of intellectual archaeology Dina Gusejnova, English Historical Review

... in this stylish and extraordinarily detailed new intellectual history ... Ghosh's answer to Weber's uniqueness is beguilingly simple, and gloriously revisionist in overturning most established scholarship Duncan Kelly, The Times Literary Supplement Let it be said at once: this breath-taking book is a really great success - rewarding and obligatory reading not only for anyone who is interested in the Protestant Ethic or Max Weber, but for everyone who grapples with the theory of the project of (Western) modernity ... It is already clear that in future there can be no avoiding Ghosh's brilliant twin history , both because of its exact textual labour and also because of its truly Teutonic erudition ... Yet this book is not only extraordinary because of the overwhelming wealth of the material it draws upon. In the exactitude of the textual analysis, which lays bare [Weber's] anticipations and backward glances, allusions and references, intellectual dependency and cross-connections, it is a brilliant achievement in terms of method, while at the same time taking us into the deepest strata of intellectual development. Thomas Sokoll, H-Soz-u-Kult [translated]

... in this stylish and extraordinarily detailed new intellectual history ... Ghosh's answer to Weber's uniqueness is beguilingly simple, and gloriously revisionist in overturning most established scholarship Duncan Kelly, The Times Literary Supplement

Author Information

Peter Ghosh was a Junior Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford (1980-1), and has been a Fellow in History at St. Anne's College, Oxford since 1981.

Tab Content 6

Countries Available