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Title: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Dover Value Editions) by Max Weber, Talcott Parsons, R.H. Tawney ISBN: 0-486-42703-X Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 04 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.39 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A must read for students of Social Science
Comment: This book turns Marx on his head in that Marx regarded religion an ideology reflecting classes, Weber seems to be showing that capitalism itself was produced not by economic forces but by the influences of religious ideas. The drive of puritans to work out anxiety over their salvation or damnation, which was left in doubt by the theological doctrine of predestination. The predestined beliefs of the Protestants encouraged capitalism. Weber uses this to describe why capitalism emerged in the western world. Students of the conflict tradition should not miss this work.
Rating: 5
Summary: Master of cultural studies
Comment: This book is legendary. Max Weber arguably was the first social scientists who devoted his life's work to cross-cultural studies. His pioneering study of "The protestant ethic..." combines a broad, almost universal, vision of human desires and ideas with painstaking details of how certain religious movements transformed the economic basis of feudal Europe, and later the United States, into an economy of competition and free enterprise. The drive in early capitalism, Weber shows, was an inherent
religious belief in money as a means of eternal salvation. Trough accumulating more wealth, capitalists were trying to prove for themselves that they were worthy of God's grace and hence were secured an afterlife in Paradise. However, spending money was not an option for these capitalists. It was considered a sin to use capital gains to satisfy carnal and worldly desires ( compare with Enron and Worldcom executives). Wealth was in many ways protected by a fear of God.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Essence Of National Liberalism...
Comment: courtesy of America's great technocracy tectonician.
The theoretical legacy of Max Weber -- namely, sociology as an independent science only dubiously dependent upon either economics or philosophy -- is a task which one is not highly encouraged to pick up in the present day, but the use of Weber recommended by Pierre Bourdieu (as a form of cold comfort surpassing Marx in his cultural materialism) may have involved too obscure a camera for the import of this book relative to extant social theory to be properly appreciated. Perhaps there is even a tonic more readily administered than recent disputations of Weber's famed religio-economic history: which has it that the cultural norms of Protestantism (denial of self-gratification in pursuit of a spiritual ideal) are responsible for the rise of the modern entrepreneural economy, perhaps all too securely. In fact, perhaps the architect of Weimar's Caesarist exceutive branch ought to be trusted with relatively little in this respect: that is to say, there should be some fact by virtue of which his work is available to us as an unstable amalgam permitting of virtuous appropriation.
Might this be the new "availability" of the former standard translation by Talcott Parsons? Indeed it might: Parsons was not only the dean of American sociologists (and how), he was actually a fantastically acute observer of "Lakatosian" dynamics in the history of ideas, and the problematic character of the Weberian conceptual scheme was unlikely to have passed him by. If we compare this version to George Schwab's translation of *The Concept of Politics* by Carl Schmitt (once explicitly claimed to be the "legitimate heir" of Weber by Habermas) the relative lack of excitement is palpable, and perhaps tangible too: Parsons was actually rather fond of "cages of rationality", and in all seriousness there may be no very good reason to consider "cylindricized" elements of meaning employed in goal-directed behavior all that ironclad. Kudos to Routledge for providing a durable reprint of the Simon & Schuster version, even with the screams of Anthony Giddens.
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Title: The Marx-Engels Reader by Karl Marx, New York :, Friedrich Selections. English. 1978 Engels, Robert C. Tucker ISBN: 039309040X Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 February, 1978 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: The Division of Labor in Society by Emile Durkheim, Lewis A. Coser ISBN: 0684836386 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology by Max Weber ISBN: 0195004620 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1958 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: SUICIDE by Emile Durkheim, John A. Spaulding, George Simpson ISBN: 0684836327 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Emile Durkheim, Karen E. Fields ISBN: 0029079373 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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