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The Truth about Modern Society: 60 Lectures on Max Weber
Understand Weber and the origins of modern society
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Qian Yongxiang: They Jointly Shaped Our Basic Ideas about Society Today Liu Qing: Understanding Weber Is Essential to Understanding the Modern World Leung Man-tao: Weber, the Man Who Invented an Entire Toolbox Series Preview | Begin Understanding Modernity with These Thinkers 1. Enter Weber and Discover the Truth about Modern Society 2. Unpacking Weber: A Complete Social Picture Still Unsurpassed 1. Weber's Question: Do Capitalists Become Capitalists Simply through Greed? 2. The Shadow of Protestant Ethics: Why Do Successful Capitalists Rarely Enjoy Themselves? 3. What Is Wealth For: Heaven, Factories, or Buying People? 4. How Does Instrumental Reason Shape Social Psychology and Government? 5. Capitalism's Distinctiveness: What Did Marx Fail to Explain? 6. Western Culture's Distinctiveness: Science versus “Western Science” 7. Western Society Ruled by Reason: Bureaucracy, Experts, and Capitalism 8. A Man Who Murders for Five Shillings Is No Capitalist 9. Rational Yet Obsessed: Forever Optimizing Wealth Growth 10. Catholic vs. Protestant Ethics: Does God Need Service or Righteous People? 11. Weber's Innovation: Society Is Built on Belief 12. Destroy Then Build: Was Capitalism's Birth Related to Religion's Decline? 13. From Catholicism to Protestantism: Challenging Church Authority in Faith's Name 14. Our Distance from God, Beginning with Confessions 15. What Does Today's Society Have to Do with the Puritans? 16. The Birth of Modern “Magic” 17. Rational Society's Great Anxiety: Charisma and a Torn Web of Meaning 18. Weber's Sociological Ideal and the Psychoanalytic Critique 19. The World in Which Max Weber Grew Up 20. Weber's Insight: Is a Military System Also a Religion? 21. Who Arranges Every Detail of Your Life? 22. Politics: Resolving Conflict among Value Systems 23. Legitimacy: Why Do Humans Willingly Obey Others? 24. Society's Beginning: Four Archetypes of Legitimacy at Work 25. Weber's Project: Human Civilization through Historical Sociology 26. Is “Transcendental Breakthrough” a Move from Prophet to Philosophy? Greece 27. Does “Transcendental Breakthrough” Come from Revolutionary Ideas? India 28. Did China's Transcendental Breakthrough Predate Confucius? 29. Does China Have a Spirit of Capitalism? 30. What Confucius and Weber Share 31. The Subject and Method of Weberian Sociology 32. Weber's Ideal Type: Describing Society, Not Prescribing It 33. How Do We Ask Questions Like Weber? 34. Weber: Six Preconditions of Modern Capitalism 35. Political Community: Why Do People Die for a Collective? 36. Sources of Legitimacy: What Do We Rely on to Resolve Disputes? 37. Legitimate Domination: Why Does Obedience Vary? 38. How Did Weber Foresee Hitler's Rise? 39. Ideal Politics: How Do We Judge a Policy? 40. How Should We Understand Modern Bureaucracy? 41. What Does It Mean to Become a Civil Servant? Bonus | 2022 New Year Message: Leave Misery and Grasp the Spark of Ideals 42. How Does Bureaucracy “Partition” Everyday Life? 43. Omnipresent Bureaucratic Habits Make People Stop Seeing “People” 44. Traditional Legitimacy: Arranging Everything Like a Parent 45. Charismatic Authority: How Does It Gather Fanatical Followers? 46. Why Can Charismatic Authority Not Last? 47. Economy and Society: What Determines Your Class? 48. What Proportion of Your Life Is Rational or Irrational? 49. Social Action: Does Daily Life Depend on Predicting Others? 50. Does More Economic Activity Mean More Instrumental Rationality? 51. How Great Is the City's Impact on Economy and Politics? 52. The City: The Fundamental Soil of Western Democracy? 53. Why Can't We Predict the Future Accurately? 54. Do People Freely Form Society Only to Lose Freedom through It? 55. Weber's Deepest Anxiety: Modern Society's Impersonalization 56. Modern Reason's Nightmare: Collusion between Bureaucracy and Market 57. Humanity Lost: Systems Colonize the Lifeworld 58. Ethics of Responsibility: Knowledge Leaves No Excuse for Naivety 59. A Disenchanted World: Do We Control Life Less Than “Primitive” People? 60. Where Do We Go in a Pessimistic World? (Finale) The Vulnerable Have No Right to Pessimism Max Weber's “Russian Dolls” Yang Zhao: Weber, My “Talisman” at Harvard