Max Weber’s famous text The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905) is surely one of the most misunderstood of all the canonical works regularly taught, mangled, and revered in ...

I n the summer of 1917, a group of university students in Munich invited Max Weber to launch a lecture series on “intellectual work as a vocation” with a talk about the scholar’s work. He was, in a ...

Max Weber, a Russian-born Jewish painter who became one of the pioneers of modern art in the United States, died yesterday at his home in Great Neck, N.Y. at the age of 80. His paintings on Hebraic, ...

Over the last few decades numerous studies of "popular religion" have appeared in the relevant scholarly literature. While only a few of these studies have explored Max Weber's (often ambiguous) ...