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
... theme in all its complexity. Yet even when he succeeds in doing so in a nuanced fashion, he frequently calls attention to qualifications and emphasizes the milieu-specific contingency of his statements. Any attempt by a translator to ...
... theme in all its complexity. Yet even when he succeeds in doing so in a nuanced fashion, he frequently calls attention to qualifications and emphasizes the milieu-specific contingency of his statements. Any attempt by a translator to ...
Page vii
... themes, and distinctions central to his argument through this mode of emphasis. Second, Weber inserts nuance through regular use of inverted commas (“national character”). This practice has also been retained, as it indicates his ...
... themes, and distinctions central to his argument through this mode of emphasis. Second, Weber inserts nuance through regular use of inverted commas (“national character”). This practice has also been retained, as it indicates his ...
Page ix
... theme” without identifying clearly his point of reference. 6. Single sentences and words altered or added in 1920 are not designated. However, Weber's major additions were in full paragraph form. Weber deleted or altered 1904—05 ...
... theme” without identifying clearly his point of reference. 6. Single sentences and words altered or added in 1920 are not designated. However, Weber's major additions were in full paragraph form. Weber deleted or altered 1904—05 ...
Page xvi
... themes. It analyzes how methodical work becomes endowed with significant meaning and moves to the very center of the lives of a specific group of people. PE can even be seen as Weber's earliest, and partial, attempt to define clearly ...
... themes. It analyzes how methodical work becomes endowed with significant meaning and moves to the very center of the lives of a specific group of people. PE can even be seen as Weber's earliest, and partial, attempt to define clearly ...
Page xxvi
... theme. As he pondered English and American Puritanism in the mid-1890s, Weber read the massive study by the economic historian Eberhard Gothein, Wirtschaftsgeschichte ales Schwarzwalds (1892) (Economic History of the Black Forest) ...
... theme. As he pondered English and American Puritanism in the mid-1890s, Weber read the massive study by the economic historian Eberhard Gothein, Wirtschaftsgeschichte ales Schwarzwalds (1892) (Economic History of the Black Forest) ...
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