Weber's Protestant Ethic
Subtitle: Origins, Evidence, Contexts (Publications of the German Historical Institute)
Contributors: Hartmut Lehmann (Editor); Guenther Roth (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 29, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 411
ISBN-13: 9780521558297
Subjects: Christian social thought & activity; History of ideas, intellectual history; Sociology of Religion; History - General History; Political Science; Politics/International Relations; Europe - Germany; History & Theory - General; Political Science / History & Theory; Weber, Max,--1864-1920.--Protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus
First sentence: In the dispute surrounding The Protestant Ethic in 1907, Max Weber explained that an "objective, fruitful critique" of his investigation of the genetic connection between Protestant asceticism and the spirit of capitalism "is only possible - in this field of endlessly intertwined causal relations - through a mastery of the source material."