Weber's "Protestant ethic" : origins, evidence, contexts /
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| Imprint: | Washington, D.C. : German Historical Institute ; Cambridge, England ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 1993. |
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| Description: | xii, 397 p. ; |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Publications of the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Publications of the German Historical Institute |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1453149 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction Guenther Roth
- Part I. Background and Context
- 1. The German theological sources and Protestant church politics Friedrich
- 2. The thesis before Weber: an archaeology
- 3. Max Weber, Protestantism, and the debate around 1900
- 4. Weber the would-be Englishman: anglophilia and family history
- 5. Weber's historical concept of national identity
- 6. Nietzche's monastery of freer spirits and Weber's sect
- 7. Weber's ascetic practices of the self
- 8. The Protestant ethic versus the 'new ethic'
- 9. The rise of capitalism: Weber versus Sombart
- Part II. Reception and Response
- 10. The longevity of the thesis: a critique of the critics
- 11. The use and abuse of textual data
- 12. Biographical evidence on predestination, covenant, and special providence
- 13. The thing that would not die: notes on refutation
- 14. Historical variability, sociological significance, and personal judgement
- 15. The historiography of continental Calvinism
- 16. The Protestant ethic and the reality of capitalism in colonial America
- 17. The economic ethics of the world religions
- 18. Meet me in St Louis: Troeltsch and Weber in America
- List of contributors
- Index