With more than three hundred photographs, Herbert List: The Monograph documents for the first time all phases of List's creativity: the Fotografia Metafisica (as List's early work, with its affinity with the work of de Chirico and Magritte, has come to be known); his photographs of Classical Greek ruins and postwar Munich; his sensitive homoerotic photographs; the artist portraits spanning the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s; and his subtle and touching human-interest photo-essays. Authoritative texts by noted critics and scholars provide historical contexts and influences and detail the development of List's oeuvre. A selection of List's own writings, a comprehensive chronology, a bibliography, and records of exhibitions, collections, and published photographs and essays complete the book. The photographs and essays collected in this volume comprise the definitive presentation of this modern master.

Herbert List is one of the most impressive photographers of the 20th century. This book is a masterpiece and offers a wonderful overview of List's work. It gives the opportunity to discover a classical and refreshing approach of the world-which escapes however from classicism.

Herbert List belongs to the most impressive photographers of the 20th century, showing a simple but wonderful vision of the world while escaping from classicism... A wonderful publication for "amateurs" and a masterpiece in arts book!

In this well-written and important book, Hilbert demonstrates how key themes in classical social theory were lost or 'inverted' by Talcott Parsons. Hilbert goes on to show how Garfinkel's 'Studies in Ethnomethodology' (1967), and related work by other early ethnomethodologists generated a body of knowledge regarding actual social practices that stood Parsons on his head, thereby unintentionally 'recovering' some of the key insights lost to American Sociology through Parson's interpretation of Durkheim and Weber. A thought-provoking book whose insights can fuel further empirical work explicating the actual processes of the social world.

In this well-written and important book, Hilbert demonstrates how key themes in classical social theory were lost or 'inverted' by Talcott Parsons. Hilbert goes on to show how Garfinkel's 'Studies in Ethnomethodology' (1967), and related work by other early ethnomethodologists generated a body of knowledge regarding actual social practices that stood Parsons on his head, thereby unintentionally 'recovering' some of the key insights lost to American Sociology through Parson's interpretation of Durkheim and Weber. A thought-provoking book whose insights can fuel further empirical work explicating the actual processes of the social world.

Provides the Missing Conceptual Framework to Weberian Comparative-Historical Sociology

I can only agree with the comments of the earlier review. This is a great book for those interested in Weber or in social theory in general. I would recommend reading Professor Kalberg's new translation of Weber's classic "The Protestant Ethic & The Spirit of Capitalism" before tackling this book. Kalberg's introduction to PE provides a nice intro to this book as well.

Of particular interest to me were the varied uses of Ideal Types and how they are shown by the author to have a "broad-ranging theoretical capacity" besides being useful has a heuristic yardstick in sociological comparisons.

All in all I came away with a sense of awe and respect for not only Max Weber's, but also Stephen Kalberg's achievement here -- The former in originating and conceptualizing and the latter in synthesizing and reconstructing Weber's intellectually stunning methodology and structure. In short this is a brilliant work from one of today's foremost Weberian scholars.

This work is a superb characterization of the monumental accomplishments of Max Weber, one of the founders of sociology and one of the greatest theoreticians of historiography and law straddling the 19th and the 20th centuries. In this wonderful book, Kalberg addresses himself to some of the major issues of interpretation besetting Weber scholarship, among which are: the scope and character of Weber's appeal to what is widely understood to be his "methodological individualism" (in dealing with this topic, Kalberg stresses the crucial role of the socially-situated TRAGER (in English: "carriers" or "bearers" of a social phenomenon, e.g., 'the Protestant ethic')): the exact nature of what Weber intended with his use of the concept of an 'ideal-type' (beautifully exemplified by Kalberg in so many passages in his book): the characteristics of Weber's comparative-historical method of sociological analysis (which Kalberg demonstrates is so much richer than later versions of such an attempt, especially in US social science circles): and so much more besides. This is a profoundly rich, historically informed and textually precise work of scholarship. One of the finest books on the great work of a great thinker yet in print. I recommend this book to all sociology students and professionals, as well as to historians of ideas, philosophers of social sciences and to general readers who will appreciate the true richness of Max Weber's genius.

Rarely have I ever come accross such a great book. I could hardly put it down before finish. Not only is the work very scholarly written as to the description of the frame of mind of the Calvinist, Puritan and Baptist believers, but it also translates the impact of such mind-frames into socio-economic behaviour.

What is the behavioural impact of a confession of faith and various christian beliefs on the conduct of business in a society? To my knowlege, Weber was the first to not only raise such a question but also to let the answers freely flow out from historical and cross-comparative studies.

Are you a christian? Read it. Are you a protestant? Read it. Are you a catholic? Read it. Are you sometimes feeling as a specialist without spirit or a hedonist without a heart? Read it.

It is not only a christian commonsense refutation of Das Kapital ans its utopian idealism, so far from real life and human condition as such, but also a real alternative to today's "specialists without spirit, hedonists without a heart, nonentities imagining they have attained a stage of humankind never reached before".

By the way, this IS INDEED a very good translation from the original 1905 publication of the first edition, therefore free from the more controversial and vindicative tone which controversial critics are alleged to often have succeeded in drawing Weber into. Here you will have Weber's original ideas laid bare and plainly exponed in their original and simple form, free from the controversy-ladden arguments which Weber had to face by the end of his carrer (BTW, Weber highly resented the controversy in which he found his work drawn into, which he solely intended as a basis step for further studies and enquiries).

This book is legendary. Max Weber arguably was the first social scientists who devoted his life's work to cross-cultural studies. His pioneering study of "The protestant ethic..." combines a broad, almost universal, vision of human desires and ideas with painstaking details of how certain religious movements transformed the economic basis of feudal Europe, and later the United States, into an economy of competition and free enterprise. The drive in early capitalism, Weber shows, was an inherent
religious belief in money as a means of eternal salvation. Trough accumulating more wealth, capitalists were trying to prove for themselves that they were worthy of God's grace and hence were secured an afterlife in Paradise. However, spending money was not an option for these capitalists. It was considered a sin to use capital gains to satisfy carnal and worldly desires ( compare with Enron and Worldcom executives). Wealth was in many ways protected by a fear of God.

This is the best book ever written, the editor must be some kind of genius....amazing!!EVERYONE should buy it!!

How can anyone rate any book by Max Weber with less than 5 stars? This Cambridge edition of some texts he wrote about politics is extremely well done. The edition includes some of his great texts about the subject as "The Vocation of Politics", "Socialism" (where he comments that socialism would crumble when faced with burocracy) and the masterpiece "Parliement and Government in Germany". This book belongs in the library of anyone who wants to seriously understand politics in our time.

Zeitlin could be a champion for a conservative approach to ancient Jewish studies. I actually came across this book in a college class I was in, and was immediately struck with the thoroughness of the book. He tends to rely heavily on a literary critical methodology, but he uses it in ways I have never seen before. His discussion of the conquest and Monarchical religion are particularly enlightening. I will say that he made me think about issues in ways I had never tried before. Additionally, he actually changed my opinion about the way Paganism and religious syncretism worked in Ancient Israel. I won't give his views away because have the fun will be reading them for the first time for yourself. Nevertheless, I will say that the discussion on the history of Documentary Hypostasis in the Appendix is worth the price of admission.

I've found this book to be hard going, not being a sociologist or Weber expert, but with careful reading I've come to get an understanding of Weber's fascinating thought. I agree with the author that Weber's ideas are as pertinent now as when they were put down at the beginning of this century. Is it because we still haven't come to grips with the basic problem of dealing with a demystified modern age? Are you an intellectual wanting to keep a place for religion in a world dominated by science and rationality? Read Weber! Are you a former Marxist wondering what went wrong? Read Weber! Are you simply looking for answers in dealing with a political system which seems out of control, unresponsive to the needs of its own people? Read Weber! This book doesn't have full answers to those questions, but this thinker does. This book however provides an excellent overview of Weberian thought, the best book on Weber I've read so far.

Gerth and Mills' reader provides an excellent introduction to Weber's life and thought. This edition includes excerpts from _Economy and Society_, the brilliant essays ``Politics as a Vocation'' and ``Science as a Vocation,'' plus a brief critical biography and material from other sources.

Weber had so much to say about so many subjects that any anthology would require a well-considered method of organization; this book has that. It is easy to navigate. When I want to know what Weber said about a particular subject, I look in _From Max Weber_.

I bought this entire New Testament series commentary to help me in teaching an adult Sunday School class. I'm glad I did! All of the books include a verse-by-verse description that is very helpful. A teaching outline is included for each chapter, along with discussion questions and an area with a more deeper discussion of certain topics important to that chapter.

As a new teacher, I have found this series invaluable in preparing my lessons. I think you'll like this one.

This is an outstanding book! It is the clearest, most explicit exposition of the central works of Marx, Durkheim and Weber available. Its theoretical discussions surpasses all secondary literature I know of including the treatments of Giddens, Aron, Nisbet, Zeitlin, Ritzer and Turner. Its strongest sections include discussions of the materialist theory of history, alienation, theory of suicide, rationalization and the Protestant ethic. In addition, the book contains a concept glossary describing in the clearest way possible terms such as ideology, anomie, means of production, division of labour etc. The book is superb for undergraduates and graduates in political and social theory