Max Weber
1864-1920
"But it is, of course, not my aim to substitute for a one-sided materialistic an equally one-sided spiritualistic causal interpretation of culture and history. Each is equally possible, but each, if it does not serve as the preparation, but as the conclusion of an investigation, accomplishes equally little in the interest of historical truth."
-The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, p. 183
Primary Literature:
- Weber, Max. 1930. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
- translated by Talcott Parsons. London: Routledge.
- _____. 1946. From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. edited by H.H. Gerth
- and C. Wright Mills. New York: Oxford Univ. Press.
- _____. 1951. The Religion of China. New York: Free Press.
- _____. 1952.Ancient Judaism. New York: Free Press.
- _____. 1963. The Sociology of Religion. Boston: Beacon.
- _____. 1978. Economy and Society. 2 Vols. edited by Guenther Roth and
- Claus Wittich. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- _____. 1988. Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Religionssoziologie. 3 Bände. Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr.
- _____. 1996. The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism. New Delhi: Munshiram
- Manoharlal.
- _____. 2002. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. translated by Stephen Kalberg. Los Angeles:
- Roxbury.
Secondary Literature:
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