Wolfgang Schluchter – författare

Max Weber and Islam is a major effort by Islamic-studies specialists to reexamine and appraise Max Weber''s perspectives on Islam and its historical development. Eight specialists on Islam and two sociologists explore many dimensions of Weber''s comments on Islam, along with Weber''s conceptual framework. The volume''s introduction links the discussions to contemporary issues and debates.

Wolfgang Schluchter reconstructs Weber''s conceptual apparatus as it applies to Islam and its historical development. In subsequent chapters, Islamic specialists consider such major topics as the developmental history of Islam, Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic reform, Islamic law and capitalism, secularization in Islam, as well as the value of attempting to apply Weber''s concept of sects to Islam. While some authors find flaws in Weber''s factual knowledge of Islam, they also find considerable merit in the kinds of questions Weber raised.

Contributors to the volume include highly respected contemporary international scholars of Islam: Ira Lapidus, Nehemia Levtzion, Richard M. Eaton, Peter Hardy, Rudolph Peters, Barbara Metcalf, Francis Robinson, Patricia Crone, Michael Cook, and S.N. Eisenstadt. Toby Huff''s introduction not only knits the thematics of the separate essays together but adds its own stresses while engaging the contributors in dialogue and debate about fundamental issues. This acute collective analysis establishes a new benchmark for understanding Weber and Islam. This book also provides an up-to-date overview of the developmental history of many aspects of Islam. A major reappraisal of the entire span of Max Weber''s sociological thought on Islam, this book will appeal to a wide range of scholars and laymen interested in the Islamic world. It will be of particular interest to sociologists specializing in religion and Middle East area specialists.

Max Weber and Islam is a major effort by Islamic-studies specialists to reexamine and appraise Max Weber''s perspectives on Islam and its historical development. Eight specialists on Islam and two sociologists explore many dimensions of Weber''s comments on Islam, along with Weber''s conceptual framework. The volume''s introduction links the discussions to contemporary issues and debates.

Wolfgang Schluchter reconstructs Weber''s conceptual apparatus as it applies to Islam and its historical development. In subsequent chapters, Islamic specialists consider such major topics as the developmental history of Islam, Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic reform, Islamic law and capitalism, secularization in Islam, as well as the value of attempting to apply Weber''s concept of sects to Islam. While some authors find flaws in Weber''s factual knowledge of Islam, they also find considerable merit in the kinds of questions Weber raised.

Contributors to the volume include highly respected contemporary international scholars of Islam: Ira Lapidus, Nehemia Levtzion, Richard M. Eaton, Peter Hardy, Rudolph Peters, Barbara Metcalf, Francis Robinson, Patricia Crone, Michael Cook, and S.N. Eisenstadt. Toby Huff''s introduction not only knits the thematics of the separate essays together but adds its own stresses while engaging the contributors in dialogue and debate about fundamental issues. This acute collective analysis establishes a new benchmark for understanding Weber and Islam. This book also provides an up-to-date overview of the developmental history of many aspects of Islam. A major reappraisal of the entire span of Max Weber''s sociological thought on Islam, this book will appeal to a wide range of scholars and laymen interested in the Islamic world. It will be of particular interest to sociologists specializing in religion and Middle East area specialists.

Today it is assumed that we understand contemporary nationalism and nation-building. Researchers rarely consider the very different traditions from which such state-building emerged. Instead, there is almost too much discussion of the "global village," with its supposed uniformity and inevitable trajectories. We need to view modernity as something other than a single condition with a preordained future. New visions of a modern civilization are emerging throughout the world, calliing for a far-reaching appraisal of the older visions of modernization.

Following Eisenstadt''s and Schluchter''s introduction, Bjorn Wittrock explores the varieties and transitions of early modern societies, noting that only by looking at societies'' collective identities and their modes of mediating in the public sphere can the distinguishing factors between modernity be appreciated. Sheldon Pollock discusses the use of vernacular language in India through its literary culture and polity, 1000-1500. Sanjay Subrahmanyam, sums up major developments in the recent historiography of South Asia from 1400 to 1750. David L. Howell focuses on the boundaries of the early modern Japanese state, including its political boundaries and the boundaries of collective identity and social status. Mary Elizabeth Berry examines public life in authoritarian Japan. Frederic Wakeman, Jr. probes the boundaries of the political game and how they were affected by the increased political centralization that developed after the disorder of the Ming-Qing transition during the seventeenth century. Alexander Woodside discusses territorial order and collective-identity tensions in Confucian Asia. Bernhard Giesen argues that the French Enlightenment can be described as an extension of absolutist court culture. Finally essay, Victor Perez-Diaz examines the state and public sphere in Spain during the Ancient Regime contrasting two ideal types of states--a "nomocratic" model and a "teleocratic" model.

This volume addresses cultural and political practices not only from outside the European and American spheres but also over long periods of time in which the internal dynamics of other civilizations become visible. Its broad-ranging use of empirical materials enables us to think comparatively and historically about the ways in which different modernities took shape.

Today it is assumed that we understand contemporary nationalism and nation-building. Researchers rarely consider the very different traditions from which such state-building emerged. Instead, there is almost too much discussion of the "global village," with its supposed uniformity and inevitable trajectories. We need to view modernity as something other than a single condition with a preordained future. New visions of a modern civilization are emerging throughout the world, calliing for a far-reaching appraisal of the older visions of modernization.

Following Eisenstadt''s and Schluchter''s introduction, Bjorn Wittrock explores the varieties and transitions of early modern societies, noting that only by looking at societies'' collective identities and their modes of mediating in the public sphere can the distinguishing factors between modernity be appreciated. Sheldon Pollock discusses the use of vernacular language in India through its literary culture and polity, 1000-1500. Sanjay Subrahmanyam, sums up major developments in the recent historiography of South Asia from 1400 to 1750. David L. Howell focuses on the boundaries of the early modern Japanese state, including its political boundaries and the boundaries of collective identity and social status. Mary Elizabeth Berry examines public life in authoritarian Japan. Frederic Wakeman, Jr. probes the boundaries of the political game and how they were affected by the increased political centralization that developed after the disorder of the Ming-Qing transition during the seventeenth century. Alexander Woodside discusses territorial order and collective-identity tensions in Confucian Asia. Bernhard Giesen argues that the French Enlightenment can be described as an extension of absolutist court culture. Finally essay, Victor Perez-Diaz examines the state and public sphere in Spain during the Ancient Regime contrasting two ideal types of states--a "nomocratic" model and a "teleocratic" model.

This volume addresses cultural and political practices not only from outside the European and American spheres but also over long periods of time in which the internal dynamics of other civilizations become visible. Its broad-ranging use of empirical materials enables us to think comparatively and historically about the ways in which different modernities took shape.

Das brisante Thema "Sterbehilfe" wirft wie derzeit kein anderes schwierige und komplexe Fragestellungen auf. In der kontrovers in Öffentlichkeit und Fachwelt geführten Diskussion stehen sich die Argumente diametral gegenüber. Das vorliegende Buch beleuchtet die einzelnen Facetten der Thematik. Während in Deutschland die "aktive Sterbehilfe" nach wie vor strafbar sein soll, werden in der Politik Überlegungen angestellt, die "passive Sterbehilfe" straffrei zu machen. Auch die Änderung des Betreuungsrechts steht in diesem Zusammenhang zur Diskussion. Vorsorgevollmacht und Patientenverfügung sind hier die zentralen Begriffe, mit denen argumentiert wird. Ethische, soziologische, rechtliche und medizinische Betrachtungen laden den Leser ein, sich einen umfassenden Überblick über das "Tabuthema im Wandel?" zu verschaffen.

​Im Zentrum des vorliegenden Aufsatzbandes steht eine ausführliche Auseinandersetzung mit Max Webers Rechtssoziologie. Ergänzt wird diese durch werkgeschichtliche und systematische Texte zu einzelnen Aspekten des Weberschen Werkes wie auch seiner Wirkungsgeschichte. Die Aufsätze verdeutlichen die Anschlussfähigkeit des Weberschen Werkes auch für aktuelle Fragen der Soziologie