Max Weber : A Biography

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A founder of contemporary social science, Max Weber was born in 1864 in Erfurt, Germany. At his death 56 years later, his place in the history of social thought was secure. His writings on the role of Protestant asceticism in shaping modern capitalism and on the connection of rational science to social action have had clear impact not only on today's sociology, but on the study of religion, economics, and political science as well. What is less clear, perhaps, is the man himself, his relation to his work. Max Weber: A Biography helps elucidate this. Sociologist Robert Nisbet called it a moving and deeply felt biographical memoir. Gerhard Masur cites it as the foundation of all further inqui…