Max Weber in America
Title | Max Weber in America PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence A. Scaff |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2011-01-30 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0691147795 |
Lawrence Scaff provides new details about Weber's visit to the United States---what he did, what he saw, whom he met and why and how these experiences profoundly influenced Weber's thought an immigration, capitalism, science and culture, Romanticism, race diversity, Protestantism, and modernity. Scaff traces Weber's impact on the development of the social sciences in the United States following his death in 1920, examining how We ber's ideas were interpreted, translated, and disseminated by American scholars such as Talcott Parsons and Frank Knight, and how the Weberian canon, codified in America, was reintroduced into Europe after World War II. --
Max Weber
Title | Max Weber PDF eBook |
Author | Marianne Weber |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 1038 |
Release | 2017-07-12 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1351506587 |
A founder of contemporary social science, Max Weber was born in Germany in 1864. At his death 56 years later, he was nationally known for his scholarly and political writings, but it was the international reception of his oeuvre over the last forty years that has made him world-famous. "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism," "The Economic Ethics of the World Religions" and his magnum opus, "Economy and Society," with its treatment of the relations of economics, politics, law and religion, belong to the great achievements of 20th-century social science. The groundwork for the posthumous Weber reception was laid by Weber's widow Marianne, a well-known feminist writer, who followed up her edition of his collected works with one of the greatest biographies in a generation that produced many important accounts of itself. Although unavailable in English until a decade ago, the importance of Marianne Weber's 1926 work had been widely understood. Sociologist Robert A. Nisbet called it "a moving and deeply felt biographical memoir." Historian Gerhard Masur cited the book as "the foundation of all further inquiries into Max Weber's life and influence." Beginning with Max's ancestry and early years, Marianne Weber guides us through his life as student, young lawyer, scholar and political writer, quoting liberally from his voluminous correspondence. Her account of his nervous breakdown after 1897, which curtailed his academic career but ultimately strengthened his creative energies, provides deep insight into some of the personal tensions that troubled him to the end. In addition to her perceptive personal and intellectual life before the First World War, describing many scholars, social reformers, politicians and literary figures within and beyond the famous Heidelberg circle of the Webers. The new introduction by Guenther Roth situates Marianne Weber's own role in the contemporary setting and discusses the current state of Weber research and of the international Weber reception.
Max Weber
Title | Max Weber PDF eBook |
Author | Dirk Käsler |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 301 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0226425606 |
Käsler offers a comprehensive account of Weber's views, giving attention both to the context in which Weber produced his most significant contributions to social science, and to the changes involved in his work over the course of his career. This volume also serves as an introduction to the controversies that Weber's writings have stimulated, from the time of their first appearance to the present day.
Sociological Writings
Title | Sociological Writings PDF eBook |
Author | Max Weber |
Publisher | Burns & Oates |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
This volume is a compact collection of Weber's most trenchant sociological writings.
Max Weber and Karl Marx
Title | Max Weber and Karl Marx PDF eBook |
Author | Karl Lowith |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 142 |
Release | 2002-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1134870000 |
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Max Weber: Modernisation as Passive Revolution
Title | Max Weber: Modernisation as Passive Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Jan Rehmann |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 457 |
Release | 2014-10-23 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9004280995 |
Basing his research on Gramsci’s theory of hegemony, Rehmann provides a comprehensive socio-analysis of Max Weber’s political and intellectual position in the ideological network of his time. Max Weber: Modernisation as Passive Revolution shows that, even though Weber presents his science as ‘value-free’, he is best understood as an organic intellectual of the bourgeoisie, who has the mission of providing his class with an intense ethico-political education. Viewed as a whole, his writings present a new model for bourgeois hegemony in the transition to ‘Fordism’. Weber is both a sharp critic of a ‘passive revolution’ in Germany tying the bourgeois class to the interests of the agrarian class, and a proponent of a more modern version of passive revolution, which would foreclose a socialist revolution by the construction of an industrial bloc consisting of the bourgeoisie and labour aristocracy. © 1998 Argument Verlag GmbH, Hamburg. Translated from German “Max Weber: Modernisierung als passive Revolution. Kontextstudien zu Politik Philosophie und Religion im Übergang zum Fordismus”.
Max Weber and the Idea of Economic Sociology
Title | Max Weber and the Idea of Economic Sociology PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Swedberg |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 2018-06-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0691187665 |
While most people are familiar with The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, few know that during the last decade of his life Max Weber (1864-1920) also tried to develop a new way of analyzing economic phenomena, which he termed "economic sociology." Indeed, this effort occupies the central place in Weber's thought during the years just before his death. Richard Swedberg here offers a critical presentation and the first major study of this fascinating part of Weber's work. This book shows how Weber laid a solid theoretical foundation for economic sociology and developed a series of new and highly evocative concepts. He not only investigated economic phenomena but also linked them clearly with political, legal, and religious phenomena. Swedberg also demonstrates that Weber's approach to economic sociology addresses a major problem that has haunted economic analysis since the nineteenth century: how to effectively unite an interest-driven type of analysis (popular with economists) with a social one (of course preferred by sociologists). Exploring Weber's views of the economy and how he viewed its relationship to politics, law, and religion, Swedberg furthermore discusses similarities and differences between Weber's economic sociology and present-day thinking on the same topic. In addition, the author shows how economic sociology has recently gained greater credibility as economists and sociologists have begun to collaborate in studying problems of organizations, political structures, social problems, and economic culture more generally. Swedberg's book will be sure to further this new cooperation.