For this important selection from Weber, sections of text from Weber's major works ("Gesammelte", "Aufsatze Zur Religionssoziologie", including "The Protestant Ethic" and the "Spirit of Capitalism"; "General Economic History"; and "The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilisations") have been carefully edited and substantially translated to form a coherent and integrated volume. ...(展开全部)

弗兰克·帕金（Frank Parkin）　英国社会学家、肯特大学荣退教授、新韦伯主义分层思想的重要代表，他的主要贡献在理论方面，比如他十分清晰地阐述了韦伯主义的社会封锁思想。

This study of Weber's sociology, written by an eminent authority, is a clear and illuminating discussion of the most important elements of Weber's thinking. The book concentrates on four main elements of Weber's work: his approach to sociological method, ethical neutrality and historical explanation; his influential work on religion and capitalism; his theory of authority and p...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 卡尔·洛维特（Karl Löwith，1897—1973） 犹太裔德国哲学家。生于慕尼黑，1919年前往弗赖堡大学求学，师从胡塞尔和海德格尔，1923年获得博士学位。在完成博士论文之后，洛维特随海德格尔去了马堡大学，在他的指导下完成了教职论文，1928—1933年在马堡大学任教，随后因纳粹的反犹政策流亡意大利、日本和美国等地，1952年受伽达默尔邀请，返回德国到海德堡大学哲学系任教至1964年退休。一生著述遍涉神学、历史哲学、社会哲学和思想史研究。洛维特的主要著作另有《尼采的相同者的永恒轮回哲学》（1935）、《雅各布·布克哈特》（1936）、《欧洲虚无主义》（1940）、《从黑格尔到尼采》（1941）、《世界历史与救赎历史》（1953）、《海德格尔——贫困时代的思想家》（1953）与《知识、信仰、怀疑》（1956）等。德国麦兹勒（Me...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 卡尔·洛维特（Karl Löwith，1897—1973） 犹太裔德国哲学家。生于慕尼黑，1919年前往弗赖堡大学求学，师从胡塞尔和海德格尔，1923年获得博士学位。在完成博士论文之后，洛维特随海德格尔去了马堡大学，在他的指导下完成了教职论文，1928—1933年在马堡大学任教，随后因纳粹的反犹政策流亡意大利、日本和美国等地，1952年受伽达默尔邀请，返回德国到海德堡大学哲学系任教至1964年退休。一生著述遍涉神学、历史哲学、社会哲学和思想史研究。洛维特的主要著作另有《尼采的相同者的永恒轮回哲学》（1935）、《雅各布·布克哈特》（1936）、《欧洲虚无主义》（1940）、《从黑格尔到尼采》（1941）、《世界历史与救赎历史》（1953）、《海德格尔——贫困时代的思想家》（1953）与《知识、信仰、怀疑》（1956）等。德国麦兹勒（Me...(展开全部)

Max Weber, widely considered a founder of sociology and the modern social sciences, visited the United States in 1904 with his wife Marianne. The trip was a turning point in Weber's life and it played a pivotal role in shaping his ideas, yet until now virtually our only source of information about the trip was Marianne Weber's faithful but not always reliable 1926 biography of ...(展开全部)

A founder of contemporary social science, Max Weber was born in Germany in 1864. At his death 56 years later, he was nationally known for his scholarly and political writings, but it was the international reception of his oeuvre over the last forty years that has made him world-famous. "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism," "The Economic Ethics of the World Religi...(展开全部)

Giddens's analysis of the writings of Marx, Durkheim and Weber has become the classic text for any student seeking to understand the three thinkers who established the basic framework of contemporary sociology. The first three sections of the book, based on close textual examination of the original sources, contain separate treatments of each writer. The author demonstrates the...(展开全部)