Max Weber
Modernity, Meaning, and Cultural Pessimism in Max Weber
Author(s): Steven Seidman
Source: Sociological Analysis, Vol. 44, No. 4 (Winter, 1983), pp. 267-278
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Author(s): Steven Seidman
Source: Sociological Analysis, Vol. 44, No. 4 (Winter, 1983), pp. 267-278
Published by: Association for the Sociology of Religion, Inc.
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3711610
Accessed: 11/03/2009 01:53
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Sociological nalysis1983, 44, 4:267-278
Modernity,
Meaning,
Pessimism
in
Max
and
Cultural
Weber
Steven Seidman
State University f New Yorkat Albany o t intellectual mporBeginning rom the assumptionhat classicalworksretaina contemporary f i
W
v a T tance,thispaperexamines eber 's iewson modernitynd theproblem f meaning. hepaperaro t n
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