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 vi
... specific contingency of his statements. Any attempt by a translator to render Weber's text in a way that exactly captures his own manner of writing will stand opposed to the first goal mentioned above: readability and accessibility ...
... specific contingency of his statements. Any attempt by a translator to render Weber's text in a way that exactly captures his own manner of writing will stand opposed to the first goal mentioned above: readability and accessibility ...
Page xiii
... specific historical epoch and in identifiable groups. These were religious groups, he contends, and they introduced the Protestant ethic. As first manifest in the spirit of capitalism and visible even today in the ways in which ...
... specific historical epoch and in identifiable groups. These were religious groups, he contends, and they introduced the Protestant ethic. As first manifest in the spirit of capitalism and visible even today in the ways in which ...
Page xvi
... specific group of people. PE can even be seen as Weber's earliest, and partial, attempt to define clearly the uniqueness of the modern West and to identify the major causal forces that drove its development (see “Prefatory Remarks ...
... specific group of people. PE can even be seen as Weber's earliest, and partial, attempt to define clearly the uniqueness of the modern West and to identify the major causal forces that drove its development (see “Prefatory Remarks ...
Page xx
... study seeks to discover the specific “ancestry” of the spirit of capitalism (pp. 37, 49—50, 54—55). In defining this task, Weber was responding critically to a heated discuson the importance of a spirit of capitalism separated PE clearly ...
... study seeks to discover the specific “ancestry” of the spirit of capitalism (pp. 37, 49—50, 54—55). In defining this task, Weber was responding critically to a heated discuson the importance of a spirit of capitalism separated PE clearly ...
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... specific problem: the rise of a spirit of capitalism in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in the West. Finally, Weber will argue that the rise of modern capitalism involves a “tempering” of all acquisitive desires; indeed, such a ...
... specific problem: the rise of a spirit of capitalism in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in the West. Finally, Weber will argue that the rise of modern capitalism involves a “tempering” of all acquisitive desires; indeed, such a ...
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