 | Max Weber - Social Science - 1968 - 371 pages
...knowledge or belief that if one but wished one could learn it at any time. Hence, it means that principally there are no mysterious incalculable forces that come...calculation. This means that the world is disenchanted. One need no longer have recourse to magical means in order to master or implore the spirits, as did... | |
 | Anthony Giddens - Political Science - 1971 - 292 pages
...to the individual should he wish to ascertain them, and his conduct is governed by the belief that ' there are no mysterious incalculable forces that come...can, in principle, master all things by calculation '.3' The relationship between the spread of formal rationality and the attainment of substantive rationality... | |
 | Timothy Mitchell - History - 1988 - 236 pages
...facticity. 'There are no mysterious incalculable forces that come into play', Weber tells us. ' ... One can, in principle, master all things by calculation. This means that the world is disenchanted. One need no longer have recourse to magical means in order to master or implore the spirits, as did... | |
 | Pierre Bourdieu, Jean-Claude Chamboredon, Jean-Claude Passeron - Sociology - 1991 - 296 pages
...rationalization, to which science commits itself and of which it is a part, means "that principally there are no mysterious incalculable forces that come...can, in principle, master all things by calculation," then it is not only true, as Weber said, that "the world is disenchanted," but also true that the social... | |
 | James T. Richardson, Joel Best, David G. Bromley - Social Science - 1991 - 332 pages
...of civilization never before achieved.' " (1958:182) Again in "Science as a Vocation" Weber tells us that "one can, in principle, master all things by calculation. This means the world is disenchanted. One no longer has recourse to magical means in order to master or implore... | |
 | Marianne Constable - Law - 1994 - 216 pages
...knowledge or belief that if one but wished one could learn it at any time. Hence, it means that principally there are no mysterious incalculable forces that come...calculation. This means that the world is disenchanted. One need no longer have recourse to magical means in order to master or implore the spirits, as did... | |
 | Kathryn Bond Stockton - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 308 pages
...by science and by scientifically oriented technology" means that "no mysterious incalculable forces come into play, but rather that one can, in principle, master all things by calculation."5 How fitting, in light of this tie to mastery, that Middlemarch offers a colonial analogy... | |
 | Religion - 1995 - 132 pages
...endeavour. It is as true now as when Max Weber wrote his famous piece on "Science as a Vocation", that "there are no mysterious incalculable forces that...things by calculation. This means that the world is disenchanted".60 Disenchantment is not the preferred state of many, perhaps the majority, of humankind.... | |
 | Philip Goldberg - Spiritual life - 2005 - 972 pages
...knowledge or belief that if one but wished one could learn it at any time. Hence, it means that principally there are no mysterious incalculable forces that come...This means that the world is disenchanted. (Weber, 1918: 139) For Weber then, the techniques and social structures created by and originally expressing... | |
 | Arthur Erwin Imhof - History - 1996 - 230 pages
...knowledge or belief that if one but wished one could learn it at any time. Hence, it means that principally there are no mysterious incalculable forces that come...calculation. This means that the world is disenchanted." 10 In his last work, "Approaching the Unconscious," which first appeared in English, the Swiss psychoanalyst... | |
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Hence, it means that principally there are no mysterious incalculable forces that come into play, but rather that one can, in principle, master all things by calculation. 
