Weber's Protestant Ethic
Subtitle: Origins, Evidence, Contexts (Publications of the German Historical Institute)
Contributors: Hartmut Lehmann (Editor); Guenther Roth (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 30, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 411
ISBN-13: 9780521440622
Subjects: Christian social thought & activity; History of ideas, intellectual history; Religion and sociology; History: World; History Of Sociological Thought; Sociology; Political Science; Protestantische Ethik und der; Politics/International Relations; Protestant churches; History & Theory - General; Sociology of Religion; Political Science / History & Theory; Protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus; Weber, Max; Weber, Max,--1864-1920.--Protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus; Capitalism; Religious aspects; Weber, Max,; 1864-1920; Christian ethics
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."