References and further reading
The best introduction in English to Max Weber’s work remains Albert Salomon’s “Max Weber’s methodology” (1934). Although Weber himself detested “methodology”, Salomon here summarizes skilfully and reliably both the continuity in his interests and the underlying arguments he advanced in the wide variety of his writings.
The best single reader remains Gerth and Mills (1948), not least because all subsequent collections are modelled upon it. More specialized collections that can be recommended for the quality of their translations are (Weber 1994) and Dreijmanis (2008). Currently the most reliable edition of the Protestant Ethic is the Penguin edition of the 1904-05 essays (Weber 2002). Weber (1975) remains the single most useful biographical source for Weber’s life. Recent developments in our understanding of Max Weber’s life and work are best exemplified by Scaff (2011).Borchardt, K. (1999), ‘Einleitung’, in K. Borchardt and C. Meyer-Stoll (eds), Borsenwesen. Schriften und Reden 1893-1898, Max Weber Gesamtausgabe, vol. I/5, Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, pp. 1-111.
Bruhns, H. (2006), ‘Max Weber’s basic concepts in the context of his studies in economic history’, Max Weber Studies, supplement I, 39-66.
Dreijmanis, J. (2008), Max Weber’s Complete Writings on Academic and Political Vocations, trans. G.C. Wells, New York: Algora.
Gerth, H.H. and C. Wright Mills (1948), From Max Weber, London: Routledge.
Ghosh, P. (2005), ‘Max Weber on the rural community: a critical edition of the English text’, History of European Ideas, 31 (3), 327-66.
Ghosh, P. (2010), ‘Max Weber, Werner Sombart and the Archiv fur Sozialwissenschaft: the authorship of the “Geleitwort” (1904)’, History of European Ideas, 36 (1), 71-100.
Hanke, E. (2009), ‘“Max Weber’s Desk is now my Altar”: Marianne Weber and the intellectual heritage of her husband’, History of European Ideas, 35 (3), 349-59.
Hennis, W. (2000), ‘Max Weber’s central question’, in W. Hennis, Max Weber’s Central Question, trans. K. Tribe, 2nd edn, Newbury: Threshold Press, pp. 3-51.
Kaelber, L. (2003), ‘Max Weber’s dissertation in the context of his early career and life’, in M. Weber, The History of Commercial Partnerships in the Middle Ages, trans. L. Kaelber, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 1-47.
Radkau, J. (2005), Max Weber. Die Leidenschaft des Denkens, Munich: Carl Hanser Verlag.
Roth, G. (2001), Max Webers deutsch-englische Familiengeschichte 1800-1950, Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck. Salomon, A. (1934), ‘Max Weber’s methodology’, Social Research, 1 (2), 147-68.
Scaff, L. (2011), Max Weber in America, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Schluchter, W. (2009), ‘Entstehungsgeschichte’, in Max Weber Gesamtausgabe, vol. I/24, Tubingen: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), pp. 1-31.
Sombart, W. (1902), Der moderne Kapitalismus, 2 vols, Leipzig: Duncker and Humblot.
Tribe, K. (1983), ‘Prussian agriculture - German politics: Max Weber 1892-7’, Economy and Society, 12, 181-226, reprinted 1989 in Reading Weber, London: Routledge, pp. 85-130.
Tribe, K. (2010), ‘Max Weber and the new economics’, in H. Hagemann, T. Nishizawa and Y. Ikeda (eds), Austrian Economics in Transition. From Carl Menger to Friedrich Hayek, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 62-88.
Weber, M. (1975), Max Weber. A Biography, trans. H. Liebersohn. New York: John Wiley.
Weber, M. (1984), Max Weber Gesamtausgabe, Tubingen: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck).
Weber, M. (1994), Political Writings, eds P. Lassman and R. Speirs, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Weber, M. (1998), ‘Preliminary report on a proposed survey for a sociology of the press’, History of the Human Sciences, 11 (2), 111-20.
Weber, M. (2002), The Protestant Ethic and the ‘Spirit’ of Capitalism, ed. and trans. by P. Baehr and G.C. Wells, London: Penguin Books.
Weber, M. (2004), ‘The objectivity of knowledge in social science and social policy’, trans. K. Tribe, in S. Whimster (ed.), The Essential Weber, London: Routledge, pp. 359-404.