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Academics and Politics
This book contains two popular speeches by Max Weber: "Academics as a Vocation" and "Politics as a Vocation". These two speeches were made before and after the end of World War I. The world had collapsed yesterday, a new social and political order had not yet taken shape, and there was a collective atmosphere of confusion and left-leaning political romanticism among German young people. Facing an audience hungry for meaning and prophets, Weber deliberately distanced himself from the chaotic curr
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Confucianism and Taoism
There are currently four major cultural areas in the world, namely, the Christian cultural area, the Islamic cultural area, the Buddhist cultural area, and the Confucian ethical cultural area. The first three major cultural areas are all formed with religion as the center. While the Confucian ethical cultural area centered on China, although there is also religion within it, the condensed core of the entire cultural area is Confucian ethical culture, a culture based on family culture. This book
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Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
"The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" is one of Max Weber's masterpieces. Why did capitalism, which has been the dominant force in the world since modern times, emerge from Western civilization alone? From the perspective of cultural and religious constraints on social and economic development, Weber proposed that modern capitalism is characterized by its rationalized continuous management and organized labor, and the core elements of the capitalist spirit, namely the idea of "vo
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The Collected Works of Max Weber (9 Volumes in Total)
"Collection of Max Weber's Works (set of 9 volumes)" includes "Academics and Politics", "Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism", "Basic Concepts of Sociology; Economic Action and Social Groups", "Sociology of Dominance", "Religions in China: Confucianism and Taoism", "Religions in India: Hinduism and Buddhism", "Sociology of Religion: Religion and the World", "Economy and History: Types of Domination", "Sociology of Law: Illegitimate Dominance". Selected from two series of Weber's "Econ
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A Brief History of World Economics
The book "A Brief History of the World Economy" was written by the German economist and sociologist Max Weber. The whole book discusses the primitive agricultural organizational forms, families, clans, villages, manorial systems, as well as the economic forms of various pre-capitalist periods, and finally ends up trying to explain the emergence of the modern capitalist mode of production. Throughout the book, the author follows the order of discussion from industry to commerce to finance and cur
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Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
"Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism" is an important work by Max Weber. By examining the economic ethics of Christianity, it explores the intrinsic relationship between religious culture and the spiritual and cultural temperament of nations in Britain and the United States, as well as their social and economic development. From this, Weber tried to answer: Why did modern capitalism only appear in the West, while the East showed a trend of stagnation during the same period.
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