Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: Max Weber: Charisma and the World of the City 1. Weber's Historical Method 2. Ethical Prophecy 3. The City Part II: Eric Voegelin 4. Voegelins's Historical Method 5. Israel and Revelation 6. Voegelin on Greece Part III: Michel Foucault: Parrhesia and the Care of the Self 7. Foucault's Historical Method 8. The Socratic Moment as Philosophical Parrhesia 9. Hellenistic-Roman Parrhesia 10. Christianity. Conclusion.

About the Author

Arpad Szakolczai studied in Budapest, Hungary and has a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. From 1990 to 1998 he taught social and political theory at the European University Institute in Florence. He is now Professor of Sociology and Head of Department at University College, Cork. This book follows his Max Weber and Michel Foucault: Parallel Life-Works (1998), and Reflexive Historical Sociology (2000), also published by Routledge.