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The Spirit vs. the Souls - Christopher A. McAuley

The Spirit vs. the Souls

Max Weber, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the Politics of Scholarship
Buch | Hardcover
226 Seiten
2019
University of Notre Dame Press (Verlag)
978-0-268-10601-0 (ISBN)
CHF 59,95 inkl. MwSt
Drawing on their correspondence from 1904 to 1906, and comparing the sociological work that they produced during this period and afterward, this book examines for the first time the ideas that Max Weber and W.E.B. Du Bois shared on topics such as sociological investigation, race, empire, unfree labour, capitalism, and socialism.
Despite the extensive scholarship on Max Weber (1864–1920) and W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), very little of it examines the contact between the two founding figures of Western sociology. Drawing on their correspondence from 1904 to 1906, and comparing the sociological work that they produced during this period and afterward, The Spirit vs. the Souls: Max Weber, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the Politics of Scholarship examines for the first time the ideas that Weber and Du Bois shared on topics such as sociological investigation, race, empire, unfree labor, capitalism, and socialism. What emerges from this examination is that their ideas on these matters clashed far more than they converged, contrary to the tone of their letters and to the interpretations of the few scholars who have commented on the correspondence between Weber and Du Bois.


Christopher McAuley provides close readings of key texts by the two scholars, including Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk, to demonstrate their different views on a number of issues, including the economic benefits of unfree labor in capitalism. The book addresses the distinctly different treatment of the two figures's political sympathies in past scholarship, especially that which discredits some of Du Bois's openly antiracist academic work while failing to consider the markedly imperialist-serving content of some of Weber's. McAuley argues for the acknowledgment and demarginalization of Du Bois's contributions to the scholarly world that academics have generally accorded to Weber. This book will interest students and scholars of black studies, history, and sociology for whom Du Bois and Weber are central figures.

Christopher A. McAuley is associate professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of The Mind of Oliver C. Cox (University of Notre Dame Press, 2004).

Prologue




Consequences of Change
Perils of Power
Paralysis of Polarization
Conundrums of Communications
Reveries of Reform
Presidency in Progress

Epilogue


A Chronology of the Modern American Presidency


For Further Reading


Acknowledgments

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie African American Intellectual Heritage
Verlagsort Notre Dame IN
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 507 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10 0-268-10601-0 / 0268106010
ISBN-13 978-0-268-10601-0 / 9780268106010
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