Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait

Front Cover
University of California Press, 1977 - Biography & Autobiography - 522 pages
The purpose of this book is to make Weber's sociological work more accessible and more thematically coherent than it is either in the original or in translation. This volume is used as an introduction to the study of orignal Weber texts and gives the reader a systematic presentation of Weber's sociological studies.  
 

Selected pages

Contents

Introduction to the New Edition
xiii
Introduction to the Original Edition
xlv
Career and Personal Orientation
1
PART ONE GERMAN SOCIETY
11
Aspects of Economic Rationality in
49
PART TWO SOCIETY RELIGION
81
Society and Religion in China
98
Society and Religion in India
142
POLITICAL DECLINE RELIGIOUS CONFLICT
233
Max Webers Sociology of Religion
257
PART THREE DOMINATION ORGANIZATION
283
Charismatic Leadership and Domination
298
ASPECTS OF DOMINATION ON THE BASIS
308
THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS
325
The Emergence
385
DOMINATION
431

SOCIETY
159
HINDU ORTHODOXY AND THE BRAHMIN
170
SECULAR ETHIC
193
Society and Religion in Ancient
200
POLITICAL ORGANIZATION AND RELIGIOUS
214
A Contemporary Perspective
458
Max Webers Image of Society
469
Index
495
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait
Reinhard Bendix
Limited preview - 1977
Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait
Reinhard Bendix
Snippet view - 1962
Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait
Reinhard Bendix
Snippet view - 1960
View all »

Common terms and phrases

action administration ancient Judaism ascetic authority basis became become belief Bhagavad Gita Brahmin Buddhism bureaucratic caste central century Chapter charisma China Chinese church concept Confucianism contrast cult cultural deities depended discussion doctrines duties economic emphasis Essays estates feudal formal functions German hence Hindu Hinduism Ibid ideal India individual institutions intellectual interests Johannes Winckelmann king kinship groups Kshatriya labor land landowners leader legal domination legal rationality legitimate literati magical Max Weber means medieval ment military modern nomic notables officials organization orientation party patriarchal patrimonial ruler political position practices priests privileges prophecy prophets Protestant Ethic Puritan rationality relation religious ideas ritual rule salvation sects secular sense social society sociology of law sociology of religion status groups struggle substantive Taoist tendencies Theory tion tradition tribes United Monarchy vassals Weber's analysis Weber's view worship Yahwe

About the author (1977)

Reinhard Bendix (1916 - 1991) was professor of political science at the University of California in Berkeley, where he has been teaching since 1947. Born in Berlin in 1916, Bendix fled the Hitler regime when he was twenty-two, and came to the United States, where he entered the University of Chicago. There he studied sociology and obtained a B.A. in 1941, an M.A. in 1943, and his Ph.D. four years later. In 1970 he was president of the American Sociological Association. Among his numerous books are Work an Authority (1956), Nation-baking and Citizenship (1964), Embattled Reason (1970), and Kinds or People (1980).

Bibliographic information

TitleMax Weber: An Intellectual Portrait
Anchor books
Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait, Reinhard Bendix
AuthorReinhard Bendix
Editionreprint
PublisherUniversity of California Press, 1977
ISBN0520031946, 9780520031944
Length522 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Biography & Autobiography / General
History / Historiography
Social Science / Sociology / General
Social Science / Sociology / Social Theory
  
Export CitationBiBTeX EndNote RefMan