Max Weber: Select Bibliography


Adai-Toteff, Christopher. “Max Weber and Ernst Toller: realists or idealists?” History of the Human Sciences Volume 20, Issue 1 (2007): 1-17.

Bellah, Robert, N. “Max Weber and world-denying love: A look at the historical sociology of religion.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion Volume 67, Issue 2 (1999): 277-305 [Available online  through EBSCOhost]

Bouchlaka, Rafik Abdessalem. “Are non-secular forms of modernity possible?” Encounters: Journal of Inter-Cultural Perspectives Volume 10, Issue 1/2 (2004): 5-22.

Chalcraft, David J. et al., eds. The Protestant Ethic Debate: Max Weber's Replies to His Critics, 1907-1910. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2001.

Chowers, Eyal. “Max Weber: The Fate of Homo-Hermeneut in a Disenchanted World” Journal of European Studies Volume 25, Issue 2 (1995): 123-40 [Available online through Periodicals Archive Online]

Davis, W. “Max Weber on religion and political responsibility” Religion Volume 29, Issue 1 (1999): 29-60 [Available online through Elsevier ScienceDirect Academic Press]

Ghosh, P.  “Max Weber's Idea of 'Puritanism': A Case Study in the Empirical Construction of the Protestant Ethic” History of European Ideas Volume 29, Issue 2 (2003): 183-221.

Giddens, Anthony.  Politics and sociology in the thought of Max Weber. London: Macmillan, 1972.

Jacob, M. C., et. al. “Missing, Now Found in the Eighteenth Century: Weber’s Protestant Capitalist” The American Historical Review Volume 108, Issue 1 (2003): 20-49 [Available online through Academic Search Premier]

Lough, Joseph W.H. Weber and the persistence of religion: social theory, capitalism, and the sublime. London: Routledge, 2006.

Mayer, J.P. Max Weber and German politics, a study in political sociology. London: Faber and Faber, 1956.

Myers, Perry. “Max Weber: Education as Academic and Political Calling” German Studies Review Volume 27, Issue 2 (2004): 269-88 [Available online through JSTOR]

Owen, David. “Of Overgrown Children and Last Men: Nietzsche's Critique and Max Weber's Cultural Science” Nietzsche Studien: Internationales Jahrbuch für die Nietzsche-Forschung Volume 29, Issue 1 (2000): 252-66.

Poggi, Gianfranco. Calvinism and the capitalist spirit: Max Weber’s Protestant ethic.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1983.

Riesebrodt, Martin. “Charisma in Max Weber's sociology of religion” Religion Volume 29, Issue 1 (1999): 1-15 [Available online through Elsevier ScienceDirect Academic Press]

Ringer, F. “Max Weber on causal analysis, interpretation and comparison” History and Theory Volume 41, Issue 2 (2002): 163-178 [Available online through Academic Search Premier]

Ringer, F. “Max Weber’s Liberalism” Central European History Volume 35, Issue 3 (2002): 379-95 [Available online through Academic Search Premier]

Roth, Guenther, Bendix, Reinhard, eds. Scholarship and Partisanship: Essays on Max Weber. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970.

Schluchter, Wolfgang. Rationalism, religion, and domination: a Weberian perspective.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.

Starr, Bradley. “The Structure of Max Weber’s Ethic of Responsibility” Journal of Religious Ethics Volume 27, Issue 3 (1999): 407-34 [Available online through EBSCOhost]

Stocker, Barry. “Liberalism after Nietzsche and Weber” Angelaki Volume 2, Issue 2 (1996): 129-40.

Swatos, William H.  “Max Weber as ‘Christian sociologist’” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion Volume 30 Issue 4 (1991): 347-62 [Available online through EBSCOhost]

Swatos, William H., ed. Time, Place, and Circumstance: Neo-Weberian Studies in Comparative Religious History. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.

Swedberg, Richard. Max Weber and the Idea of Economic Sociology. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.

Weber, Marianne. Max Weber: A Biography. New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1988.

Whimster, Sam. Understanding Weber. London: Routledge, 2007.


 
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