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A Weberian Perspective on Home, Nature and Sport

A Weberian Perspective on Home, Nature and Sport

Michael Symonds

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
2024
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Teoría social
ISBN:
9781032151106

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This book extends Max Weber’s theory of the value-spheres of modernity into wholly new areas, showing that the addition of home, nature and sport to Weber’s own list of five spheres (economic, scientific/intellectual, political/legal, erotic and aesthetic) yields original insights into these aspects of modernity and modernity itself.

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