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Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe

Band II/10: Briefe 1918-1920

Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe( )
Editor: Krumeich, Gerd
Lepsius, M. Rainer
As told to: Hinz, Uta
Oßwald-Bargende, Sybille
Schön, Manfred
Author: Weber, Max
Series title:Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe Ser.
ISBN:978-3-16-150895-0
Publication Date:Aug 2012
Publisher:Mohr Siebeck
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $368.00
Book Description:

English summary: Max Weber's letters between 1918 and 1920 show the astounding number of upheavals in his political, professional and private life. Max Weber was active as a consultant for a realistic handling of the German loss of the war and as a citizen for a parliamentary state governed by the rule of law. Professionally he dared to make a new start as a university teacher, first in Vienna and then in Munich. During this time, he focused on sociology as the center of his theories...
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Book Details
Pages:627
Detailed Subjects: Social Science / Sociology / Social Theory
Biography & Autobiography / Social Scientists & Psychologists
Biography & Autobiography / Cultural & Regional
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):12.987 x 6.864 Inches
Book Weight:2.74 Pounds
Author Biography
Weber, Max (Editor)
Max Weber, a German political economist, legal historian, and sociologist, had an impact on the social sciences that is difficult to overestimate. According to a widely held view, he was the founder of the modern way of conceptualizing society and thus the modern social sciences. His major interest was the process of rationalization, which characterizes Western civilization---what he called the "demystification of the world." This interest led him to examine the three types of domination or authority that characterize hierarchical relationships: charismatic, traditional, and legal. It also led him to the study of bureaucracy; all of the world's major religions; and capitalism, which he viewed as a productof the Protestant ethic. With his contemporary, the French sociologist Emile Durkheim---they seem not to have known each other's work---he created modern sociology. 020



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