Max Weber and Charles Ives: The Puritan as Cultural Modernist

Journal of Classical Sociology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 191-214

  de la Fuente, Eduardo ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

asceticism aestheticism; Cage; experimental music; Ives; modernism; mysticism; practical morality; Weber

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247654116     PISSN: 1468795X     EISSN: 17412897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468795X04043933     Document Type: Article

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