Max Weber

April 21, 1864, Erfurt, Prussia -- June 14, 1920, Munich, Germany

 



Other Writings:

Die römische Agrargeschichte in ihrer Bedeutung für das Staats- und Privatrecht (1891)
Wirtschaftsgeschichte (1923; General Economic History, trans. by Frank H. Knight, 1927; paperback 1961)


Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Religionssociologie, 3 vol. (1920)
Vol. 1, Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus. Die protestantischen Sekten und der Geist des Kapitalismus. Die Wirtschaftsethik der Weltreligionen
vol. 2, Hinduismus and Buddhismus
vol. 3, Das antike Judentum
trans. (from vol. 1) The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, by Talcott Parsons (1930, paperback 1958)
The Religion of China, Confucianism and Taoism (1951)
(from vol. 2) The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism, trans. and ed. by Hans H. Gerth and Don Martindale (1958)
(from vol. 3) Ancient Judaism (1952)


Gesammelte politische Schriften (1921)

Die rationalen und soziologischen Grundlagen der Musik (1921; The Rational and Social Foundations of Music, 1958)


Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (1922, 2 vol. 1925),
part one The Theory of Social and Economic Organization, trans. by A.R. Henderson and Talcott Parsons (1947, paperback 1964)
Max Weber on Law in Economy and Society, trans. of selected passages ed. by Max Rheinstein
The Sociology of Religion, trans. of vol. 2, ch. 4 (1963, paperback 1964)
Basic Concepts in Sociology, trans. by H.P. Secher (1962);

Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretative Sociology, a new and complete translation of Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, ed. by Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich (1968)


Gesammelte Aufsätzw zur Wissenschaftslehre (1922)
Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Soziologie und Sozialpolitik (1924)
Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte (1924)
Schriften zur theoretischen Soziologie, zur Soziologie der Politik und Verfassung (1947)
Aus den Schriften zur Religionssoziologie (1948).

Other translations:

From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, trans. and ed. by H.H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills (1947, paperback 1958), containing essays first written or published between 1906 and 1924
Max Weber on the Methodology of the Social Sciences, trans. and ed. by Edward A. Shils and Henry A. Finch (1949), containing three essays, two of which were published in the Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik (1904 and 1905), and a third essay first published in Logos (1917)
The City, trans. of Die Stadt, ed. by Don Martindale and Getrud Neuwirth (1958)
On Charisma and Institution Building, selected papers, ed. by S.N. Eisenstadt (1968).
The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilization (trans. from Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte by R. I. Frank (1976)


References:

Marianne Weber, Max Weber: Ein Lebensbild (1926, 1950; Max Weber: A Biography, 1975)

Eduard Baumgarten, Max Weber: Werk und Person (1964)

Reinhard Bendix, Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait (1962; new ed. 1977, with introduction by Guenther Roth)

Julien Freund, Sociologie de Max Weber (1966; Eng. trans. 1968)

Ilse Dronberger, The Political Thought of Max Weber; In Quest of Statesmanship (1971).