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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
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Sumario: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 historical grasp of the work's full range of meanings, of its place within the fertile culture of the German states before 1914, and within Max Weber's intellectual biography remains slight. The essays in this volume derive from the author's work in translating and commenting on the Protestant Ethic. They seek (f.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (317 pages)
ISBN:9783447190572
3447190574