Product Description: In recent years we have witnessed a 'return of Marxism' as a younger generation of scholars and activists have rediscovered Marx as a crucial source for the critique of capitalism. The title Returns of Marxism refers to this return but also to the rewards of the Marxist tradition when this wealth of ideas is re-appropriated and re-interpreted by a new generation of activists and scholars in contemporary struggles and research...read more

Max Weber's writings in The Sociology of Religion are today acknowledged as a classic of the social sciences in the twentieth century. They are key texts for understanding Weber s central sociological concepts concerning Western and Eastern civilisations . This book argues that the concept and problematic of personality plays a pivotal role within these works. Providing a detailed reconstruction of this concept within Weber s systematic studies of world religions as well as throughout his methodological and political writings, this book shows its complex development within three strictly related problematics associated with Weber s influential comparative historical sociology and theory of social action individuation, politics and orientalism. Together they shape and constitute what is distinctive in Max Weber s theory of personality."

The popular nineteenth century British novelist shares his experiences visiting the United States in 1842, and offers his observations on American government and society