Max Weber: A Biography

by Joachim Radkau

Book Overview

Max Weber (1864-1920) is recognized throughout the world as the most important classic thinker in the social sciences - there is simply no one in the history of the social sciences who has been more influential. The affinity between capitalism and protestantism, the religious origins of the Western world, the force of charisma in religion as well as in politics, the all-embracing process of rationalization and the bureaucratic price of progress,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745641474
• ISBN13: 9780745641478
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 700 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 6.4" x 9.1"