Economy and Society (2 Volume Set) First Edition, Two Volume Set, with a New Foreword by Guenther Roth

by Max Weber (Author), Guenther Roth (Editor), Claus Wittich (Editor)

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Published posthumously in the early 1920's, Max Weber's Economy and Society has since become recognized as one of the greatest sociological treatises of the 20th century, as well as a foundational text of the modern sociological imagination.

The first strictly empirical comparison of social structures and normative orders conducted in world-historical depth, this two volume set of Economy and Society―now with new introductory material contextualizing Weber’s work for 21st century audiences―looks at social action, religion, law, bureaucracy, charisma, the city, and the political community.

Meant as a broad introduction for an educated general public, in its own way Economy and Society is the most demanding textbook yet written by a sociologist. The precision of its definitions, the complexity of its typologies, and the wealth of its historical content make the work an important challenge to our sociological thought: for the advanced undergraduate who gropes for her sense of society, for the graduate student who must develop his own analytical skills, and for the scholar who must match wits with Weber.

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Starting out as a professor of law and economics at a young age in Imperial Germany, Max Weber (1864-1920) had a brilliant career interrupted by illness, which ultimately freed him from academic constraints to create the great interdisciplinary body of work for which he is famous today. Transcending the German contemporary context, his writings have become, through a series of transatlantic transmissions, one of the foundation stones of American and international social science and indispensible reading in several disciplines. Central aspects of his oeuvre, foremost Economy and Society, remain of continued importance in the age of globalization and its counter-movements.

Guenther Roth, born in Germany in 1931, began his American career in 1953, dealing extensively with Max Weber’s scholarly and political writings in their contemporary context and their impact on American social science. Since his retirement from Columbia University in 1997, he has written about Weber’s cosmopolitan family history and the tensions in his life between scholarship, politics and personal relations.

Claus Wittich, born in Germany in 1932, was for many years a specialist for eastern European economies at US universities, then the United Nations in New York and Geneva. His recent work focuses on academic links between Germany and Russia from the 18th to the 20th century.

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Publisher : University of California Press; First Edition, Two Volume Set, with a New Foreword by Guenther Roth (October 11, 2013)
Language: : English
Paperback : 1712 pages
ISBN-10 : 0520280024
ISBN-13 : 978-0520280021
Item Weight : 5.7 pounds
Dimensions : 6 x 4.8 x 9.25 inches

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Max Weber linked religious satisfaction with economic pride in his most popular book, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Then he tried to expand the sociology of developmental history by writing about religion in China, India, and ancient Judaism. The end of Max Weber's life as a professor of economics in 1920 was around the time in which a Woody Wilson wet dream was falling apart without having all the Presbyterians die laughing from an overdose of World War Wit. Instead of trying to find crimes against humor in the work of Max Weber, it is more fruitful to remind ourselves of the Freudian aspects of our failure to maintain all the old ego boundaries as modern societies ride a cosmic pogo stick down the stairs to end up in the basement of as nuclear submarine.

Society is a strange combination of factors which is vulnerable to purely person relationships, which are aptly described by Max Weber in connection with vocational ethics in Economy and Society (1968, 1978) as power relationships:

subordination . . .
dominated by caprice and grace,
indignation and love,
and most of all by the mutual piety
and devotion of masters and subalterns,
after the fashion of the family. (p. 600).

Moses and God. Nixon and Kissinger, Obama and no witnesses

Moses confronted God face to face. Nixon had Kissinger to share his views on the importance of superpower activities. Since the death of Max Weber in 1920, World War Wit has expanded to make any form of social science merely an intellectual comfort zone for thinkers who find the existing dominate tricks oppressive. Max Weber pictured bureaucracy rationalizing activities, but current practice is to hide the nature of particular times by shifting money to meet capital requirements. Paper money dominated the financial problems in the times of Max Weber (who wrote that the United States had little interest in the foreign exchange value of American money, Economy and Society, p. 183) and Keynes, who wrote a Tract on Monetary Reform in 1923.

Big time societies maintain a marketing system which makes the marginal thinking of millionaires and billionaires possible. Financial extremes are schismatic. The current system of political finance just became a factor in a governor of Illinois being sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption after being tried in federal court. The irony of justice in a cosmic pogo stick society, with everything hopping back and forth like a gambling addiction trying to play faster than the triumph of therapeutic messages coming from the highly educated spear chucker lip in the White House, is a product of worldwide acceptance of the deep unreal.

Intellect should get the Martin Luther Stonehood award when it has a sharper definition of how the importance of an isolated instant in time can equal the danger of training trashy people for high stakes World War Wit inside jobs wiping out unauthorized financial transactions when political power determines whose money has been derived from illegitimate activities:

As far as sociology is concerned,
power of command does not exist
unless the authority which is claimed
by somebody is actually heeded to a
socially relevant degree. (p. 948).

Also where war is a constant
state of affairs, the prestige of
the older men is likely to sink
below that of the warriors and
there often develops a democratic
bias of the younger groups against
the prestige of old age (sexagenarios de ponte). (pp. 950-951).

The conditions of administration
of mass structures are radically different
from those obtaining in small associations
resting upon neighborly or personal relationships. (p. 951).

The money economy is of very
great importance for the whole bearing
of bureaucracy, yet by itself it is by no
means decisive for the existence of bureaucracy. (pp. 963-964).

The increasingly bureaucratic organization
of all genuine mass parties offers the most
striking example of the role of sheer quantity
as a leverage for the bureaucratization of a
social structure; in Germany, above all the
Social Democratic Party, and abroad both of
the American parties are prime examples. (p. 971).

A direct road leads . . .
to the present position of the policeman
as the "representative of God on earth." (p. 972).

And as far as complicated tasks are concerned,
paid bureaucratic work is not only more precise
but, in the last analysis, it is often cheaper than
even formally unremunerated honorific service. (p.974).

As in the song "Cosmic Charlie" by the Grateful Dead, I am concerned that we find the deep unreal when:

the very last lately inquired about you.

Trying to see everything as dynamic, transition failures can crop up as dramatically as reverse warrior is a yoga position coinciding with a change of breath, or a financial crisis jumps on a cosmic pogo stick bouncing back and forth. The cracks in time of the deep unreal might parallel the significance of the primary question Kierkegaard raised in his book, Philosophical Crumbs. Then he wrote a Concluding Unscientific Postscript.

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