Economy and Society
Douban
A New Translation
Max Weber translator: Keith Tribe
overview
The definitive new translation of Max Weber’s classic work of social theory—arguably the most important book by the foremost social theorist of the twentieth century.
Max Weber’s Economy and Society is the foundational text for the social sciences of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, presenting a framework for understanding the relations among individual action, social action, economic action, and economic institutions. It also provides a classification of political forms based upon “systems of rule” and “rulership” that has shaped debate about the nature and role of charisma, tradition, legal authority, and bureaucracy.
Keith Tribe’s major new translation presents Economy and Society as it stood when Weber died in June 1920, with three complete chapters and a fragment of a fourth. One of the English-speaking world’s leading experts on Weber’s thought, Tribe has produced a uniquely clear and faithful translation that balances accuracy with readability. He adds to this a substantial introduction and commentary that reflect the new Weber scholarship of the past few decades.
This new edition will become the definitive translation of one of the few indisputably great intellectual works of the past 150 years.
contents
Preface
Introduction to Max Weber’s Economy and Society
Overview of Chapter 1
Chapter 1. Basic Sociological Concepts
Overview of Chapter 2
Chapter 2. Basic Sociological Categories of Economic Action
Overview of Chapter 3
Chapter 3. Types of Rule
Overview of Chapter 4
Chapter 4. Social Ranks and Social Classes
Appendix A. Translation Appendix
Appendix B. The Definitional Paragraphs of Chapter 1
Acknowledgements
Index
