Politics, Character, and Culture: Perspectives from Hans Gerth (Contributions in Sociology)

ISBN: 0313228639

Author: Bensman, Marilyn

Condition: New

Review?[Gerth's] former students who edited Politics, Character, and Culture tell us that it grew in large part out of two thousand pages of unpublished writing found after Gerth died. Like the book, the editors add, this literary inheritance puts in much sharper focus some themes that he stressed all along: the slighted relationship between Weber and Marx, a general critique of American sociology, a broadly conceived sociology of knowledge. ... For all these reasons, the present book gives a reader the first glimpse ever of Gerth's own thoughts as a whole.?-Contemporary Sociology"Gerth's former students who edited Politics, Character, and Culture tell us that it grew in large part out of two thousand pages of unpublished writing found after Gerth died. Like the book, the editors add, this literary inheritance puts in much sharper focus some themes that he stressed all along: the slighted relationship between Weber and Marx, a general critique of American sociology, a broadly conceived sociology of knowledge. ... For all these reasons, the present book gives a reader the first glimpse ever of Gerth's own thoughts as a whole."-Contemporary Sociology"[Gerth's] former students who edited Politics, Character, and Culture tell us that it grew in large part out of two thousand pages of unpublished writing found after Gerth died. Like the book, the editors add, this literary inheritance puts in much sharper focus some themes that he stressed all along: the slighted relationship between Weber and Marx, a general critique of American sociology, a broadly conceived sociology of knowledge. ... For all these reasons, the present book gives a reader the first glimpse ever of Gerth's own thoughts as a whole."-Contemporary SociologyAbout the Authornsman /f Joseph /r ed.omp. and ed.ich /f Arthur /i J. /r ed.th /f Nobuko /r ed.