This is a specially commissioned set of essays on the themes of Max Weber, culture, anarchy and politics. It presents the first complete publication (in both En

Max Weber is best known as one of the founders of modern sociology and the author of the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, but he also made importa

These essays bring Weber's sociology to bear on the current transformation of the political landscape. After the collapse of communism, many states are faced wi

The most profound and enduring social theorist of sociology's classical period, Max Weber speaks as cogently to concerns of the new century as he did to those o

The first attempt to reconstruct the relationship of Max Weber and the foremost labour movement organisation of its time, German Social Democracy, during his fo