For this important selection from Weber, sections of text from
Weber's major works (Gesammelte, Aufsatze Zur Religionssoziologie,
including The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism;
General Economic History; and The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient
Civilisations) have been carefully edited and substantially
translated to form a coherent and integrated volume.
Professor Andreski's aim has been to use Weber's own works to
explain crucial turns in the evolution of societies and cultures,
while eliminating the difficulties of language and frequent
mistranslation which have previously made Weber so difficult and
baffling for students new to his work.
An essay by Andreski introduces the selections, which are
centred on Weber's principal interest, the relationship between
capitalism, religion and bureaucracy. He seeks to correct those
misinterpretations of Weber's work which have stressed his
classification, rather than his attempts to theorise and explain
social phenomena on the basis of a comparitive analysis of
universal historical trends.
This book was first published in 1983.
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