The Cambridge Companion to WeberStephen Turner Max Weber is indubitably one of the very greatest figures in the history of the social sciences, the source of seminal concepts like 'the Protestant Ethic', 'charisma' and the idea of historical processes of 'rationalization'. But, like his great forebears Adam Smith and Karl Marx, Weber's work always resists easy categorisation. Prominent as a founding father of sociology, Weber has been a major influence in the study of ancient history, religion, economics, law and, more recently, cultural studies. This Cambridge Companion provides an authoritative introduction to the major facets of his thought, including several (like industrial psychology) which have hitherto been neglected. A distinguished international team of contributors examines some of the major controversies that have erupted over Weber's specialized work, and shows how the issues have developed since he wrote. The articles demonstrate Weber's impact on a variety of research areas. |
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... historian 223 HAROLD J. BERMAN AND CHARLES J. REID , JR . 12 From agrarian history to cross - cultural comparisons : Weber on Greco - Roman antiquity 240 WILFRIED NIPPEL 13 Max Weber as economist and economic historian 256 STANLEY L ...
... historian 223 HAROLD J. BERMAN AND CHARLES J. REID , JR . 12 From agrarian history to cross - cultural comparisons : Weber on Greco - Roman antiquity 240 WILFRIED NIPPEL 13 Max Weber as economist and economic historian 256 STANLEY L ...
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... historian read thousands of medieval contracts in various languages to write a dissertation on medieval trading companies prior to the legal creation of the limited liability company , who in the middle of his life learned Russian in a ...
... historian read thousands of medieval contracts in various languages to write a dissertation on medieval trading companies prior to the legal creation of the limited liability company , who in the middle of his life learned Russian in a ...
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... historian of law - a topic that formed a large proportion of Weber's actual writing and show some ways in which Weber was selective in his coverage , even in connection with issues which were central to him , such as the impact of ...
... historian of law - a topic that formed a large proportion of Weber's actual writing and show some ways in which Weber was selective in his coverage , even in connection with issues which were central to him , such as the impact of ...
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Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Rationality rationalization and psychology | 25 |
Rationality economy and society | 27 |
Rationalization and culture | 48 |
Psychophysics and culture | 65 |
Politics and culture | 87 |
The rule of man over man politics power and legitimation | 89 |
Weber on the cultural situation of the modern age | 105 |
Religions and their economic ethics | 155 |
Max Webers Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism | 157 |
Max Webers Orient | 178 |
Max Webers Ancient Judaism | 206 |
Law and economics | 227 |
Max Weber as legal historian | 229 |
From agrarian history to crosscultural comparisons Weber on GrecoRoman antiquity | 246 |
Max Weber as economist and economic historian | 262 |
Global capitalism and multiethnicity Max Weber then and now | 123 |
Constitutional Caesarism Webers politics in their German context | 137 |
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