Book Review: Rationality and Capitalism in Max Weber’s Analysis of Western Modernity

Adorno, T. W. (1973) Negative Dialectics. New York: Seabury. (Orig. pub. 1966.)

Antoni, Carlo (1962) From History to Sociology. London: Merlin.

Aron, Raymond (1964) German Sociology. Glencoe, IL: Free Press. (Orig. pub. 1937.)

Bendix, Reinhard (1960) Max Weber. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.

Cahnman, Werner (1964) ‘Max Weber and the Methodological Controversy’, pp. 103-127 in Werner Cahnman and Alan Boskoff (eds) Sociology and History. New York: Free Press/Macmillan.

Durkheim, Émile (1952) Division of Labor in Society. New York: Macmillan. (Orig. pub. 1893, 1902.)

Hennis, Hennis (2000) Max Weber’s Central Question. Newbury: Threshold Press. (Orig. pub. 1987.)

Jaspers, Karl (1964) Three Essays: Leonardo, Descartes, Max Weber. New York: Harcourt.

Kronman, Anthony (1983) Max Weber. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Lazarsfeld, Karl and Anthony Oberschall (1965) ‘Max Weber and Empirical Social Research’, American Sociological Review 30(2): 185-199.

Loewith, Karl (1970) ‘Weber’s Interpretation of the Bourgeois-Capitalistic World in Terms of the Guiding Principle of “Rationalization”’, pp. 101-122 in Dennis Wrong (ed.) Max Weber. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

MacIver, Robert (1947) The Web of Government. Glencoe, IL: Free Press.

Malinowski, Bronislaw (1948) The Sexual Life of Savages in Northwestern Melanesia. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. (Orig. pub. 1929.)

Malinowski, Bronislaw (1967) A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World.

Mandel, Michael (1994) The Charter of Rights and the Legalization of Politics in Canada. 2nd edn. Toronto: Thompson Educational Publishing.

Mannheim, Karl (1940) Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Mitzman, Arthur (1970) The Iron Cage. New York: Knopf.

Parsons, Talcott (1937) The Structure of Social Action, Vol. II. Glencoe, IL: Free Press.

Schluchter, Wolfgang (1981) The Rise of Western Rationalism: Max Weber’s Developmental History. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Schluchter, Wolfgang (1989) Rationalism, Religion and Domination: A Weberian Perspective. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Schluchter, Wolfgang (1996) Paradoxes of Modernity: Culture and Conduct in the Theory of Max Weber. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Shils, Edward (1965) ‘Charisma, Order and Status’, American Sociological Review 30(2): 199-213.

Weber, Alfred (1947) Farewell to European History. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner.

Weber, Max (1978) Economy and Society, ed. Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich . Berkeley: University of California Press. (Orig. pub. 1965, 1964.)

Wilson, H. T. (1971) ‘Max Weber’s Pessimism’ (a review of Arthur Mitzman’s The Iron Cage), International Journal of Contemporary Sociology 8(2): 183-188.

Wilson, H. T. (1973) ‘Rationality and Decision in Administrative Science’, Canadian Journal of Political Science 6(3): 271-294.

Wilson, H. T. (1984) Tradition and Innovation. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Wilson, H. T. (1993) ‘The Impact of Nationalist Ideology on Political Philosophy: the Case of Max Weber’, History of European Ideas 16(4-6): 545-550.

Wilson, H. T. (1995) ‘Space and Place as Convergent Sources of Political Identity’, History of European Ideas 21(4): 499-504.

Wilson, H. T. (2000) ‘Use Value and Substantive Rationality in the Work of Marx and Weber’. Paper presented to the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Society, Edmonton, 28 May.

Wilson, H. T. (2002) Capitalism after Postmodernism. Leiden: Brill Academic.