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Ausgabe: | November/2016 |
Spalte: | 1283–1285 |
Kategorie: | Systematische Theologie: Ethik |
Autor/Hrsg.: | Ghosh, Peter |
Titel/Untertitel: | Max Weber and ›The Protestant Ethic‹. Twin Histories. |
Verlag: | Oxford u. a.: Oxford University Press 2014. 424 S. Geb. US$ 49,95. ISBN 978-0-19-870252-8. |
Rezensent: | Hans-Jürgen Wolff |
This is an impressive study. The historian of ideas Peter Ghosh, already renowned for his close reading of Weber’s writings, presents an intellectual history of Max Weber with his most famous text, »The Protestant Ethic and the ›Spirit‹ of Capitalism« (PE), as a focal point. Ghosh treats and expounds the PE as »a kind of compact summa« of Weber’s work and thoughts prior to its publication in 1904/05, as a microcosm to be matched by the macrocosm of Weber’s later »Economy and Society«, and as a nucleus expanded and supplemented by his »Economic Ethics of the World Religions«.
Three questions arise: (1) Is it not quite natural that a text benefits from the author’s prior work and thought, and influences what she will further think and write? Apparently, ...
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