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 xi
... appear today quite unorthodox. “We moderns” only infrequently explain human behavior, let alone economic activity, by reference to religion. In our epoch dominated by a ** Terms defined in the Glossary, when first used in each chapter ...
... appear today quite unorthodox. “We moderns” only infrequently explain human behavior, let alone economic activity, by reference to religion. In our epoch dominated by a ** Terms defined in the Glossary, when first used in each chapter ...
Page xx
... appears fiilly “irrational” and unnatural viewed from the perspective of the spontaneous enjoyment of life (pp. 24, 30—31, 33, 37). This is Weber's modest concern in this “essay in cultural history.” Rather than investigating the ...
... appears fiilly “irrational” and unnatural viewed from the perspective of the spontaneous enjoyment of life (pp. 24, 30—31, 33, 37). This is Weber's modest concern in this “essay in cultural history.” Rather than investigating the ...
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... appear first in these civilizations.13 *>I<>l< In these ways,14 PE seeks fundamentally to recast the ongoing debate toward an exploration of the origins of a “rational” economic ethic, or spirit of capitalism (pp. 19—35). Weber laments ...
... appear first in these civilizations.13 *>I<>l< In these ways,14 PE seeks fundamentally to recast the ongoing debate toward an exploration of the origins of a “rational” economic ethic, or spirit of capitalism (pp. 19—35). Weber laments ...
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... appears to have motivated Weber to intensify his own research. In his chapter on the origin of the capitalist spirit, Sombart had dismissed the role of Protestantism, especially Calvinism and Quakerism, as “too wellknown to require ...
... appears to have motivated Weber to intensify his own research. In his chapter on the origin of the capitalist spirit, Sombart had dismissed the role of Protestantism, especially Calvinism and Quakerism, as “too wellknown to require ...
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... appear by chance; rather, it constituted an opportunity given by God to acquire wealth: If God show you a way in which you may, in accord with His laws, acquire more profit than in another way, without wrong to your soul or to any other ...
... appear by chance; rather, it constituted an opportunity given by God to acquire wealth: If God show you a way in which you may, in accord with His laws, acquire more profit than in another way, without wrong to your soul or to any other ...
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