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Preamble 1 Religious Faith in an Intellectual's World 1.1 Weber's religiosity 1.2 The Protestant individual 1.3 Meaning in the world 1.4 The symmetry of science and religion 2 Reason and the Individual: the Kantian Unit 2.1 Knowledge of the world 2.2 Kant and the unity of the 'I' 2.3 Reason and the moral agent 2.4 Weber's individualism 3 The Nietzschean Challenge 3.1 The assault on Christianity 3.2 The sensual philosophy 3.3 The influence of Nietzsche on German culture 3.4 The Weber-Nietzsche controversy of 1964 3.5 Nietzschean themes and attitudes in Weber 4 The Scientist in Search of Salvation 4.1 Understanding Weber's creativity vii Xt Xttt XVI 1 12 53 55 58 62 9 The Structure of Collective Action 9.1 The social relationship 9.2 Legitimacy 9.3 Power and authority 9.4 Groups 9.5 Charisma 9.6 Morality, obedience and democracy 10 The Historical Development of Rationality Preamble 10.1 Formal and material rationality 10.2 The growth of rationality 10.3 The boundaries of rationality 10.4 Ideas as explanatory factors 10.5 Rationality as a force PART III EXPLORATIONS IN WEBERIAN SOCIAL THEORY Contents ix 158 158 161 165 168 Preamble 11 Understanding and Social Structure 11.1 Human agency 11.2 The meaning of understanding 11.3 Immediate and motivational understanding 11.4 Whose meaning? 11.5 Structuresofmeaning 11.6 Facticity and the limits of understanding 11.7 Power and compromise 12 The Empirical Study of Values Preamble 12.1 The spirit of the age 12.2 The nature of values 12.3 Values and the sociological categories 12.4 Values and the rationalisation process 12.5 Values and the scientist 13 Society and the Market 247 13.1 A vocabulary for groups 248 13.2 Collective concepts 251 x Contents 13.3 Marx's idea of the social 13.4 Weber's analysis of the social 13.5 The market 13.6 The place of society Conclusion: From Social Theory to Sociology 1 Collapse of consensus 2 Weber's empirical project 3 Social facts Reflexivity 5 Voice of the twentieth century 6 The retrieval of sociology

Silence on feelings in organizational theory is deemed a twentieth century aberration, at odds with earlier assumptions and also with the deeper thrust of Max Weber's interpretative sociology which gave equal weight to irrationality and rationality. Participants' accounts are used to illustrate the ubiquity of emotions in organizations. Affectivity can properly be seen, not simply as a personal quality but as a property of organizations and a key aspect of their performance.

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