Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Of "Sect Man" -- agency, citizenship, and civil society -- reading weber: between politics and science -- in search of the protestant ethic thesis -- outline of the argument -- 2 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Individualism -- introduction: "the last of our heroisms" -- "a rationalization toward an irrational conduct of life" -- calling: sanctification and regimentation of everyday life -- predestination: objectification of the world and disempowerment of the self -- empowering the individual agency: self-mastery and discipline -- conclusion: value, rationality, and freedom -- 3 The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Civil Society -- introduction: sociability of the puritan berufsmensch -- gemeinschaft, gesellschaft, and amerikanismus -- modes of sociability: america versus europe -- sect contra church: particularism and voluntarism -- secularization of charisma: from sect to status group and bureaucracy -- conclusion: the public and the private -- 4 Politics, Science, Ethics -- introduction: götterdämmerung -- disenchantment and reenchantment -- conviction, responsibility, and decision -- practice of the self i: realpolitik -- practice of the self ii: ideal type -- conclusion: modernity, conscience, and duty -- 5 Liberalism, Nationalism, and Civil Society -- introduction: liberalism and nationalism -- national identities, nation-states, and the political -- nationalism, citizenship, and personality -- politics of the classes: refeudalization and embourgeoisement -- politics of checks and balances: corporatism and parliamentarism -- conclusion: "the school of men" -- 6 Max Weber's Politics of Civil Society -- statecraft and soulcraft in max weber -- purpose, contestation, and the political -- bowling alone -- References -- Max Weber's Works -- Freiburg (1895).

Roscher and Knies (1903-6) -- Objectivity (1904) -- Nordamerika (1906) -- Russia (1906) -- Zeitungswesen (1909) -- Schlußwort (1910) -- Vereinswesen (1910) -- World Religions (1913) -- China (1915-16) -- Rejections (1915-16) -- Democracy (1917) -- Neutrality (1917) -- Parliament (1918) -- Science (1917-19) -- Politics (1919) -- Protestant Ethic (1904-5/1920) -- Protestant Sects (1920) -- Economy and Society (1921-2) -- Sozialpolitik (1924) -- Biography (1926) -- MWG(1981-) -- Other Works -- Index.