Max Weber's Theory of Personality -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Max Weber's Theory of Personality -- 2. Individuation -- 3. Politics -- 4. Orientalism -- 5. Organisation of the Book -- 6. Summary of the Chapters -- 1. From the Historical Individual to the Sociological Personality -- 1. Singularisation and Individualisation of History -- 2. The Notion of Individuality in 19th Century Historiography -- 3. The Heidelberg School and the Axiological Foundation of the Historical Individual -- 3.1. Windelband, Rickert and Lask -- 4. Universalism of Values and Anti-Naturalism: Logical Antinomies and Political Implications -- 5. Historical Individual and Subjective Axiology in Max Weber -- 5.1. Subjectivism and Polytheism of Values. Weber between Menger and Nietzsche -- 6. Causality and Rationality Versus Unpredictability and Irrationality of Action -- 7. Towards a Theory of Personality -- 2. A Lexicon of Individuation: Bildung, Religion, Personality -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Religion, between the Individual and Society -- 3. From Magic to Religion: Disenchantment and Rationalisation -- 4. Conceptions of God in the Orient and in the Western World -- 5. The Theodicy of Suffering and the Religions of Redemption -- 5.1. Exemplary Prophecy and Ethical Prophecy: The Individual as Container and as Instrument -- 6. Ascetic and Mystical Orientation -- 6.1. Asceticism, Mysticism and Social Transformation -- 7. Irrationalisation of Ends, Rationalisation of Means: On Formal Rationality -- 8. Religion and Economics: Negative Dialectic and the Birth of Capitalism -- 3. Puritan Personality and Political Leadership of Capital -- 1. A 'Partial' Synopsis -- 1.1. The Protestant Diaspora in North America and 'Political' Individualism.

2. Criticisms, Condemnations and Misinterpretations -- 3. Avant le Déluge: An Anachronic Approach to Interpreting "The Protestant Ethic" -- 3.1. First Analepsis: The Freiburg Address -- 3.2. Second Analepsis: Kulturkampf and the Journey to the United States -- 4. Rationalisation and Specialisation -- 5. Weber Versus the Neo-Humanism of Wilhelm von Humboldt -- 6. Weber Versus the Realisation of Individuality in Marx -- 7. Puritan Personality and Political Leadership of Capital -- 4. The Roots of Rationalisation: Ancient Judaism -- 1. Social Stratification in Ancient Palestine -- 2. Jewish Hierocracy: Between Bureaucracy and Charisma -- 2.1. The Circle of 'Yahweh Intellectuals': The Levites -- 2.2. The "Titans of Holy Curse": The Prophets of Doom -- 3. The Historicity of the World and the Dislocation of Authority -- 4. On the Utility and Liability of Marginality for Judaism: The Community of the Covenant and the Pariah-People -- 4.1. Centrality of the Periphery -- 4.2. Ethical Universalism and Religious Particularism of the Pariah-People -- 5. Collective Emancipation Versus Individual Salvation: The Jewish "Personality" -- 5. Paradoxes of Religious Individualism: On Weber's Sociology of India -- 1. The Sociology of India. Hinduism and Buddhism -- 2. Hinduisation, Church and Sect -- 3. The Caste System -- 3.1. The Brahmanic Hierocracy -- 4. The Dharma of Caste, Karma and Samsara -- 5. The Heterodox Religions: Jainism and Buddhism -- 6. Egotism and Conformism: Religious Individualism in India -- 6. The Land of The 'Well-Adjusted Man': Weber's Sociology of China -- 1. From Feudalism to Patrimonialism -- 2. State Bureaucracy and Political Capitalism -- 3. On the Sacred Nature of Tradition: The Precarious Equilibrium between Centre and Periphery.

4. Confucianism as a "Religious Ethic for Cultivated Men" -- 5. The Taoist and Buddhist Heterodoxies -- 6. The Theoretical Challenge of Confucian Rationalism -- 6.1. Rational Accomodation to the World Versus Rational Dominion Over the World -- 7. On the Absence of Personality -- 7.1. 'State of Minority' and Ascribed Roles -- 7. Politics and Orientalism of the Occidental Personality -- 1. The Protestant Sects and the Puritan Personality -- 2. In the Beginning was Charisma -- 3. Homo Politicus and Homo Puritanus -- 4. The Asiatic Non-Personality -- 5. Homo Asiaticus and Homo Bureaucraticus -- 6. Concluding Remarks: Politics and Orientalism of the Occidental Personality -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Names Index.