Economy and Society: A New Translation

Max Weber

Published by Harvard University Press 2019

Economy and Society

A New Translation

Max Weber
Edited by: Keith Tribe

https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674240827

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Keith Tribe’s new translation presents Economy and Society as it stood when Max Weber died. One of the world’s leading experts on Weber’s thought, Tribe has produced a clear and faithful translation that will become the definitive English edition of one of the few indisputably great intellectual works of the past 150 years.

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Max Weber is out of style…It is about time for a reappraisal, and an excellent opportunity has been provided in the form of Keith Tribe’s new translation of Weber’s masterpiece.
-- Nick Burns New Criterion

Keith Tribe is one of the best Weberians around, and has been for decades. This excellent translation will make Max Weber’s work more readily available to a new generation of scholars. Weber’s major ideas never go stale, and Tribe’s translation will assure reliable access to them.
-- Alan Sica, Pennsylvania State University

Harvard University Press could not have found a better translator than Keith Tribe for this project, and no Anglophone writer knows Weber better. Tribe has produced a fine translation that will help the non-specialist appreciate the greatness of Weber’s work.
-- Peter Baehr, Lingnan University, Hong Kong

The great Anglo-American tradition of Max Weber translation has never been more necessary than today, when English is the near-universal language of the academy and the German-language understanding of Weber has recently undergone a revolution. Keith Tribe brings us up to date with a new and appropriately revolutionary re-presentation of Max Weber’s final text of Economy and Society. In the 1960s Economy and Society was said to be the ABC of sociological theory; now we can see it is the Everest.
-- Peter Ghosh, University of Oxford

Generations of sociologists have thought they really understood what Max Weber was really doing in writing Economy and Society. Historians have long known this is more mythology than reality. And Keith Tribe has been one of the leading figures in putting back into proper context the emergence of those bits of text we can be certain that Weber was most on top of before he died. Tribe’s introduction to this volume is exemplary, letting us see quite how original and still surprising the first several chapters of Weber’s approach to action, interpretation, meaning and the conceptual construction of the economy are. Furthermore, his new translation, with its greater fidelity to the original texts and clarity in its presentation of Weber’s emphatic and didactic intent, effectively gives English-language readers a completely new text, and thus a new Weber, to grapple with.
-- Duncan Kelly, University of Cambridge

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction to Max Weber’s Economy and Society Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Overview of Chapter One Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
1. Basic Sociological Concepts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Overview of Chapter Two Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
2. Basic Sociological Categories of Economic Action Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Overview of Chapter Three Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
3. Types of Rule Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	338
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4. Social Ranks and Social Classes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	450
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Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Published: April 1, 2019
ISBN: 9780674240827