马克斯·韦伯（Max Weber, 1864年4月21日—1920年6月14日）是德国的政治经济学家和社会学家，他被公认是现代社会学和公共行政学最重要的创始人之一。韦伯最初在柏林大学开始教职生涯，并陆续于维也纳大学、慕尼黑大学等大学任教。他对于当时德国的政界影响极大，曾前往凡尔赛会议代表德国进行谈判，并且参与了魏玛共和国宪法的起草设计。

韦伯的主要著作围绕于社会学的宗教和政治研究领域上，但他也对经济学领域作出极大的贡献。他的知名著作《新教伦理与资本主义精神》是他对宗教社会学最初的研究，韦伯在这本书中主张，宗教的影响是造成东西方文化发展差距的主要原因，并且强调新教伦理在资本主义、官僚制度、和法律权威的发展上所扮演的重要角色。韦伯并将国家定义为一个“拥有合法使用暴力的垄断地位”的实体，这个定义对于西方现代政治学的发展影响极大。他在各种学术上的重要贡献通常被通称为“韦伯命题”。

For the first time in 70 years, a new translation of Max Weber's classic "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" --one of the seminal works in sociology-- published in September 2001. Translator Stephen Kalberg is an internationally acclaimed Weberian scholar, and in this new translation he offers a precise and nuanced rendering that captures both Weber's style and the unusual subtlety of his descriptions and causal arguments. Weber's original italicization, highlighting major themes, has been restored, and Kalberg has standardized Weber's terminology to better facilitate understanding of the various twists and turns in his complex lines of reasoning.

Weber's compelling work remains influential for these reasons: it explores the continuing debate regarding the origins and legacy of modem capitalism in the West; it helps the reader understand today's global economic development; and it plumbs the deep cultural forces that affect contemporary work life and the workplace in the United States and Europe.

This new edition/translation also includes a glossary; Weber's 1906 essay, "The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism"; and Weber's masterful prefatory remarks to his "Collected Essays in the Sociology of Religion," in which he defines the uniqueness of Western societies and asks what "ideas and interests" combined to create modem Western rationalism

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Introduction to the Translation

Introduction to The Protestant Ethic

Glossary

The Problem

Religious Affiliation and Social Stratification p. 3

The Spirit of Capitalism p. 13

Luther's Conception of the Calling p. 39

The Task of the Investigation p. 47

The Vocational Ethic of Ascetic Protestantism

The Religious Foundations of This-Worldly Asceticism p. 53

Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism p. 103

'The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism' p. 127

'Prefatory Remarks' to Collected Essays in the Sociology of Religion (1920) p. 149

Notes for The Protestant Ethic p. 165

Notes for 'The Protestant Sects' p. 247

Notes for 'Prefatory Remarks' p. 255

Name Index p. 259

Subject Index p. 263

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