From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology (Routledge Classics in Sociology) - Softcover

Max Weber

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415060567 ISBN 13: 9780415060561

Publisher: Routledge, 1991

Synopsis

Max Weber (1864-1920) was one of the most prolific and influential sociologists of the twentieth century. This classic collection draws together his key papers. This edition contains a new preface by Professor Bryan S. Turner.

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Synopsis:

Max Weber is the most distinguished sociologist of modern times. He died in 1920, leaving behind him a considerable amount of material, which has been assembled in volumes of collected essays on politics, methodology, general sociology, and the sociology of religion. Now, in the volume before us, H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills have produced a translation of a further selection from his work, preceded by an illuminating introduction ...Instructive and a great intellectual pleasure.' - The Listener

About the Author:

Bryan S. Turner is a leading Weber scholar and contemporary sociologist. He has edited Max Weber: Critical Responses (Routledge 1999) and Max Weber on Economy and Society, with Robert Holton (Routledge 1989), and is the founding editor with John O'Neill of the Journal of Classical Sociology.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0415060567
• ISBN 13: 9780415060561
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 524
• Editor: H. H. Gerth, C. Wright Mills