Max Weber: An Intellectual Biography

by Fritz Ringer and Fritz K. Ringer

Book Overview

Max Weber was one of the most influential and creative intellectual forces of the twentieth century. In his methodology of the social sciences, he both exposed the flaws and solidified the foundations of the German historical tradition. Throughout his life, he saw bureaucracy as a serious obstacle to cultural vitality but as an inescapable part of organizational rationality. And in his most famous essay, on the Protestant ethic, he uncovered the psychological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226720055
• ISBN13: 9780226720050
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"