Intellectual Work and the Spirit of Capitalism: Weber's Calling

by Thomas Kemple

Book Overview

This book treats three lectures that Weber gave in the last decade of his career as a podium or prism from which to approach his best-known treatises and essays on the rise of occidental capitalism. His remarks on 'Technology and Culture' (1910) and his famous 'Science as a Vocation' (1917) and 'Politics as a Vocation' (1919 lectures) offer a standpoint for assessing the contemporary relevance of Weber''s notion of ''interpretive understanding'',...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137377135
• ISBN13: 9781137377135
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 9.0"