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A Historian Reads Max Weber : Essays on the Protestant Ethic.

Max Weber's Protestant Ethic is undoubtedly the most widely-read text in Western social theory of the last century. But is it really known? The proposition of this book is that it is not. Innumerable readers will "know" it for their own pedagogic and theoretical purposes, but properly...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ghosh, Peter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2008.
Colección:Kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien /Studies in Cultural and Social Sciences.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Preface; Symbols and Abbreviations; Note on translation and on the text of the PE; Body; 1 A short manifesto by way of introduction; 2 Max Weber's Idea of 'Puritanism': a case study in the empirical construction of the Protestant Ethic; 3 Max Weber in the Netherlands 1903-7: a neglected episode in the early history of The Protestant Ethic; 4 Capitalism and Herrschaft: Max Weber at St. Louis; 5 The place of Judaism in Max Weber's Protestant Ethic; 6 Max Weber and German theological tradition: the case of Matthias Schneckenburger.
  • 7 After Burckhardt: Max Weber and the idea of an Italian Renaissance8 Max Weber and William James: 'pragmatism', psychology, religion; 9 "Robinson Crusoe", the isolated economic man: marginal utility theory and the "spirit" of capitalism; Summary Index.