![]() ![]() With a precise and nuanced rendering of Weber's style and arguments, Kalberg clarifies the various twists and turns of Weber's complex lines of reasoning. ![]() This new edition has been translated and introduced by internationally acclaimed Weberian scholar Stephen Kalberg. The book analyses the connection between the spread of Calvinism and a new attitude towards the pursuit of wealth in post-Reformation Europe and England, and attitude which permitted, encouraged – even sanctified – the human quest for prosperity. It is a brilliant book that studies the psychological conditions which made possible the development of capitalist civilisation. First published in 1905, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is one of the most renowned and controversial works of modern social science. ![]()
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