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
... devout Dissenters in seventeenth-century England had been central in the emergence of the notion of fundamental political rights and liberties impressed Weber and aroused his curiosity: [Jellinek's] proof of religious traces in the ...
... devout Dissenters in seventeenth-century England had been central in the emergence of the notion of fundamental political rights and liberties impressed Weber and aroused his curiosity: [Jellinek's] proof of religious traces in the ...
Page xxix
... devout were enabled to conduct their lives in an “accounting” fashion: sinful behavior, however reprehensible, could be balanced out over the long run by repentance and the more frequent practice of charitable good works as penance. A ...
... devout were enabled to conduct their lives in an “accounting” fashion: sinful behavior, however reprehensible, could be balanced out over the long run by repentance and the more frequent practice of charitable good works as penance. A ...
Page xxxi
... devout became unbearable (pp. 57— 60). Ascetic Protestants after Calvin, the Puritans, with whom Weber was concerned, sought to address the doctrine of predestination's bleak outcome in a variety of ways.26 Undoubtedly, if congregations ...
... devout became unbearable (pp. 57— 60). Ascetic Protestants after Calvin, the Puritans, with whom Weber was concerned, sought to address the doctrine of predestination's bleak outcome in a variety of ways.26 Undoubtedly, if congregations ...
Page xxxii
... devout. The predestination decree could not be changed by the actions of mere mortals, even if pleasing to this vindictive deity. However, the revisions of Calvin's doctrines by Richard Baxter and other seventeenth—century “Puritan ...
... devout. The predestination decree could not be changed by the actions of mere mortals, even if pleasing to this vindictive deity. However, the revisions of Calvin's doctrines by Richard Baxter and other seventeenth—century “Puritan ...
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... devout to God's laws and the modes of taming the status naturae might prove ineffective. Even the sincere faithful might still draw the logical conclusions from the predestination decree: fatalism and despair.30 In fact, Weber saw that ...
... devout to God's laws and the modes of taming the status naturae might prove ineffective. Even the sincere faithful might still draw the logical conclusions from the predestination decree: fatalism and despair.30 In fact, Weber saw that ...
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