The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit" of Capitalism and Other Writings" (Weber Max)(Paperback)

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit" of Capitalism and Other Writings" (Weber Max)(Paperback)

In The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work and the fulfillment of one's worldly duties. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Weber Max)(Paperback)

Max Weber's best-known and most controversial work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, first published in 1904, remains to this day a powerful and fascinating read. Weber's highly accessible style is just one of many reasons for his continuing popularity. The book contends that the

An Analysis of Max Weber's the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Guzman Sebastian)(Paperback)

The German sociologist Max Weber is considered to be one of the founding fathers of sociology, and ranks among the most influential writers of the 20th-century. His most famous book, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, is a masterpiece of sociological analysis whose power is based on

Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism (Tanner Kathryn)(Paperback)

One of the world's most celebrated theologians argues for a Protestant anti-work ethic In his classic The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber famously showed how Christian beliefs and practices could shape persons in line with capitalism. In this significant reimagining of

The Arachnean and Other Texts (Deligny Fernand)(Paperback)

The Arachnean and Other Texts by Fernand Deligny (1913-1996) is a collection of writings from the second half of the 1970s. In 1968 Deligny established a 'network' for informally taking care of children with autism that was more than a mere site of living: it was a milieu created out of a

Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)(Paperback)

Scandal of the Century - and Other Writings (Marquez Gabriel Garcia)(Paperback / softback)

Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell (Russell Marta)(Paperback)

This book comprises a collection of groundbreaking writings by Marta Russell on the nature of disability and oppression under

The Autobiography and Other Writings (Franklin Benjamin)(Paperback)

Benjamin Franklin's writings represent a long career of literary, scientific and political efforts over a lifetime which extended nearly the entire eighteenth century. This volume includes Franklin's reflections on such diverse questions as philosophy and religion, social status, electricity,

Pragmatism and Other Writings (James William)(Paperback)

The writings of William James represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Ranging from philosophy and psychology to religion and politics, James composed the most engaging formulation of American pragmatism. 'Pragmatism' grew out of a set of lectures and the full

Signs and Machines: Capitalism and the Production of Subjectivity (Lazzarato Maurizio)(Paperback)

An analysis of how capitalism today produces subjectivity like any other 'good,' and what would allow us to escape its hold.'Capital is a semiotic operator' this assertion by F lix Guattari is at the heart of Maurizio Lazzarato's Signs and Machines, which asks us to leave behind the logocentrism

Fable of the Bees and Other Writings - Publick Benefits' (Mandeville Bernard)(Paperback / softback)

Abelard and Heloise: The Letters and Other Writings (Abelard)(Paperback / softback)

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings: Poems, Tales, Essays, and Reviews (Poe Edgar Allan)(Paperback)

This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. 'The Fall of the House of Usher' describes the final hours of a family

The Bible and the Flag: Protestant Mission and British Imperialism in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Stanley B.)(Paperback)

A well-researched and scholarly examination of the relationship between Protestant missions and imperialism in the past 200

Spirit and Fire: A Thematic Anthology of His Writings (Origen)(Paperback)

This volume presents more than 1000 selections from the various extant writings of Origen, the Alexandrian theologian. It contains translatations from the original Greek and Latin, added scriptural references in the texts, an index, and bibliographical

The History of Middle-Earth 05: The Lost Road and Other Writings - J. R. R. Tolkien, Tolkien Christopher

The fifth volume of the History of Middle-earth, containing the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war, The Silmarillion

Nietzsche: 'On the Genealogy of Morality' and Other Writings (Ansell-Pearson Keith)(Paperback)

Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most influential thinkers of the past 150 years and On the Genealogy of Morality (1887) is his most important work on ethics and politics. A polemical contribution to moral and political theory, it offers a critique of moral values and traces the historical

Rousseau: The Discourses and Other Early Political Writings (Rousseau Jean-Jacques)(Paperback)

A comprehensive and authoritative anthology of Rousseau's important early political writings in faithful English translations. This volume includes the Discourse on the Sciences and Arts and the Discourse on the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality among Men - the so-called First and Second

A Tale of a Tub and Other Works (Swift Jonathan)(Paperback)

This volume includes 'The Battle of the Books' and 'The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit', both which accompanied 'A Tale of a Tub' on its first publication in 1704. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the

Derrida and Other Animals: The Boundaries of the Human (Still Judith)(Paperback)

Analyses Derrida's late writings on animals, especially his seminars The Beast and the SovereignWhat is man? This book examines Derrida's contribution to this long-standing philosophical and political debate, which has typically evoked a significant division between human beings and other animals

A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Sublime and Beautiful: And Other Pre-Revolutionary Writings (Burke Edmund)(Paperback)

Edmund Burke was one of the foremost philosophers of the eighteenth century and wrote widely on aesthetics, politics and society. In this landmark work, he propounds his theory that the sublime and the beautiful should be regarded as distinct and wholly separate states - the first, an experience

Charisma and Disenchantment: The Vocation Lectures (Weber Max)(Paperback)

A new translation of two celebrated lectures on politics, academia, and the disenchantment of the world. The German sociologist Max Weber is one of the most venturesome, stimulating, and influential theorists of the modern condition. Among his most significant works are the so-called vocation

Rousseau: The Social Contract and Other Later Political Writings (Gourevitch Victor)(Paperback)

A comprehensive and authoritative anthology of Rousseau's major later political writings in up-to-date English translations. This volume includes the essay on Political Economy, The Social Contract, and the extensive, late Considerations on the Government of Poland, as well as the important draft