The Routledge International Handbook on Max Weber

This book explores the latest thinking about Max Weber and his continuing influence on theoretical and empirical interests today. Bringing together the work of leading scholars from a variety of disciplines, it illuminates Weber’s thought in a number of key areas, including the methodology and philosophy of social science, comparative religion, the rationalization process, political sociology, the sociology of law, and the Protestant ethic and the development of capitalism.

An international collection that demonstrates the enduring importance of Weber’s thought to contemporary sociology and the discipline’s major concerns, The Routledge International Handbook on Max Weber will appeal to scholars in a range of disciplines, including sociology, social theory, politics, philosophy, law, and international relations.

Alan Sica is Professor of Sociology and Founder and Director of the Social Thought Program at Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is the author of Book Matters: The Changing Nature of Literacy (Transaction/Routledge, 2016), Max Weber and the New Century (Transaction/ Routledge, 2017), Max Weber: A Comprehensive Bibliography (Routledge, 2017), and Weber, Irrationality, and Social Order (California University Press, 1988; 2018). He is the editor of Ideologies and the Corruption of Thought (Routledge, 1997), What is Social Theory? The Philosophical Debates (Blackwell, 1998), The Unknown Max Weber (Transaction Publishers, 2004), Social Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Present (Pearson/Routledge, 2004), Comparative Methods in the Social Sciences (Four Volumes, SAGE, 2006), Max Weber (Ashgate/Routledge, 2013) and The Anthem Companion to Max Weber (Anthem Press, 2016). He is also co-editor of Hermeneutics: Questions and Prospects (University of Massachusetts Press, 1983) and The Disobedient Generation: Social Theorists in the Sixties (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and former editor of the Sociological Theory and Contemporary Sociology journals.