Weber, passion and profits : 'the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism' in context / Jack Barbalet.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-243) and index.

Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Note on citations -- Introduction -- 1 From the inaugural lecture to the Protestant Ethic: political education and German futures -- The inaugural lecture -- Religion and economic outcomes -- Political education and calling -- Minding the gap -- Science and values -- Conclusion -- 2 From the Protestant Ethic to the vocation lectures: Beruf, rationality and emotion -- Beruf, rationality and the modern personality -- Beruf, rationality and emotion in the Protestant Ethic -- Beruf, rationality and emotion in the vocation lectures -- Weber's retreat from ascetic rationalism -- Conclusion -- 3 Passions and profits: the emotional origins of capitalism in seventeenth-century England -- Profits -- Passions -- A presentation of Passions of the Minde -- Management of passion by means of passion -- Expression of emotions -- Capitalism, seventeenth-century Catholicism and cultural apparatus for market actors -- Conclusion -- 4 Protestant virtues and deferred gratification: Max Weber and Adam Smith on the spirit of capitalism -- Moral Sentiments as a sociological text -- Protestant virtues -- Deferred gratification -- Self-control and self-command -- Emotion and reason in self-command -- Smith's social principles and Weber's religious legitimation -- Conclusion -- 5 Ideal-type, institutional and evolutionary analyses of the origins of capitalism: Max Weber and Thorstein Veblen -- Capitalist personality -- Capitalist institutions -- The state and capitalism -- The variable incidence of capitalism -- The religious factor, again -- Ideal-type method -- Evolutionary method -- Instincts and institutions -- Conclusion -- 6 The Jewish question: religious doctrine and sociological method -- Jewish rationalism, Protestant rationalism -- The Jews as a 'pariah people' -- Anti-Semitism and Jewish marginalization -- Talmud or social relations -- Values and practices -- The ideal type and universal values -- Religious belief as a social cause -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.

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Max Weber's 'The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism' is one of the best-known and most enduring texts of classical sociology, continually inspirational and widely read by both scholars and students. In an insightful and original interpretation, Jack Barbalet discloses that Weber's work is not simply about the cultural origins of capitalism but an allegory concerning the Germany of his day. Situating 'The Protestant Ethic' in the development of Weber's prior and subsequent writing, Barbalet traces changes in his understanding of key concepts including 'calling' and 'rationality'. In a close analysis of the ethical underpinnings of the capitalist spirit and of the institutional structure of capitalism, Barbalet identifies continuities between Weber and the eighteenth-century founder of economic science, Adam Smith, as well as Weber's contemporary, the American firebrand, Thorstein Veblen. Finally, by considering Weber's investigation of Judaism and capitalism, important aspects of his account of Protestantism and capitalism are revealed.

English.

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