Economy and Society [complete]

I like categorization as much as the next person, but this Kategorienlehre was too much for me. I believe the work was unfinished when the author died, and this seems evident from the text. It is a collection of notes and ideas, sensible in its overall structure but clearly in need of more editing and summarizing to improve readability. It still had a great influence on 20th century sociology, but in this case I would recommend derivative works before the original source.

I will never stop reading this book.

Real talk - the hype is deserved. While its difficult to follow the "neo-Kantian realism" end of Weber's methodology, an entire idiosyncratic and systematic social imaginary gradually comes into focus as one flips through chapters. There is a huge amount of insight to be gained, but ironically not too much directly in dialogue with Marx.

Reading Simmel's Philosophy of Money gives some additional insight.

, (2), 840 pp.contemporary blue cloth. 27cm. Few pencil marks.First edition of one of the greatest and most influential works of modern sociology in which Weber attempts to provide a more secure foundation of sociology and the science of history. It was published as part III of the series " Grundri� der Sozialökonomik" Ziegenfuß: II.841. A near fine copy.

This book is An Outline of Interpretive Sociology and its economy.

See also Peter E. Gordon's review of "Charisma and Disenchangment: The Vocation Lectures" in NYRB June 11,2020