The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of CapitalismFor the first time in 70 years, a new translation of Max Weber's classic The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism --one of the seminal works in sociology-- published in September 2001. Translator Stephen Kalberg is an internationally acclaimed Weberian scholar, and in this new translation he offers a precise and nuanced rendering that captures both Weber's style and the unusual subtlety of his descriptions and causal arguments. Weber's original italicization, highlighting major themes, has been restored, and Kalberg has standardized Weber's terminology to better facilitate understanding of the various twists and turns in his complex lines of reasoning. Weber's compelling work remains influential for these reasons: it explores the continuing debate regarding the origins and legacy of modem capitalism in the West; it helps the reader understand today's global economic development; and it plumbs the deep cultural forces that affect contemporary work life and the workplace in the United States and Europe. This new edition/translation also includes a glossary; Weber's 1906 essay, "The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism"; and Weber's masterful prefatory remarks to his Collected Essays in the Sociology of Religion, in which he defines the uniqueness of Western societies and asks what "ideas and interests" combined to create modem Western rationalism |
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Page xxvi
... Catholics appeared to him a quite plausible and natural orientation for his research. Indeed, he had been reading ... Catholicism and Protestantism on the other was acknowledged among journalists and the educated public in Germany in the ...
... Catholics appeared to him a quite plausible and natural orientation for his research. Indeed, he had been reading ... Catholicism and Protestantism on the other was acknowledged among journalists and the educated public in Germany in the ...
Page xxvii
... quantitative expansion of this 'spirit' across the globe. (p. 49; emph. in original) Whether religious beliefs constitute the “specific ancestry” of the spirit xxvii nated as owners of industrial concerns, while Catholics were more often.
... quantitative expansion of this 'spirit' across the globe. (p. 49; emph. in original) Whether religious beliefs constitute the “specific ancestry” of the spirit xxvii nated as owners of industrial concerns, while Catholics were more often.
Page xxviii
... Catholicism, Lutheranism, and the ascetic Protestant churches and sects from two perspectives: the extent to which religious belief calls forth motivations that give rise to a methodical-rational organization of life, and the degree to ...
... Catholicism, Lutheranism, and the ascetic Protestant churches and sects from two perspectives: the extent to which religious belief calls forth motivations that give rise to a methodical-rational organization of life, and the degree to ...
Page xxix
... Catholicism rather than the placing of uninterrupted psychological rewards upon a system— atized, rigorously directed ... Catholic confessional and the parallel salvation paths for lay and virtuoso believers, Lutheranism distanced itself ...
... Catholicism rather than the placing of uninterrupted psychological rewards upon a system— atized, rigorously directed ... Catholic confessional and the parallel salvation paths for lay and virtuoso believers, Lutheranism distanced itself ...
Page xxx
... Catholicism had been taken. A systematization of life as a whole, however, did not occur in Lutheranism. Finally, because ... Catholic ethic of brotherhood and thus opposed the impersonal exchange characteristic of relationships in the ...
... Catholicism had been taken. A systematization of life as a whole, however, did not occur in Lutheranism. Finally, because ... Catholic ethic of brotherhood and thus opposed the impersonal exchange characteristic of relationships in the ...
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