Preface to the English Edition -- Introduction to the First Edition (1998) -- Part 1 The Model of Americanism -- Chapter 1 Weber's 1904 Journey to America -- Chapter 2 The Ambivalent Fascination of Capitalism -- Chapter 3 Taylorism and Fordism in the Stockyards -- Chapter 4 The Alliance of Religion and Business -- Chapter 5 The 'Displacement' of Religion from the State into Civil Society (Marx) -- Chapter 6 The Sect as Germ Cell of a Superior Model of Societalisation -- Part 2 Outlines of a Fordist Project of Modernisation for Germany -- Chapter 7 The Programme of the 1895 Freiburg Inaugural Address -- Chapter 8 The Katheder Socialist Milieu -- Chapter 9 The Imperialist Critique of the Agrarian Class -- Chapter 10 A Homogenous Stock Market Elite with a Coherent Concept of Honour -- Chapter 11 The Critique of the 'Passive Revolution' in Germany -- Chapter 12 Proposals for the Development of a 'Caesarism without a Caesar' -- Chapter 13 The Integration of the Modern Industrial Proletariat into Bourgeois Society -- Chapter 14 The Return of the Charismatic 'Caesar' to Modern Politics -- Part 3 From the Neo-Kantian Philosophy of Values to the Weberian 'Theory of Science' -- Chapter 15 Formulating the Question in Terms of a Critical Theory of Ideology -- Chapter 16 Theory of Reflection and Transcendental Idealism-An Epistemological Rendezvous manqué -- Chapter 17 The Dualism of Law-Determined 'Nature' and Value-Determined 'Culture' -- Chapter 18 The 'Value Relation' as Bearer of 'Freedom from Value Judgements' -- Chapter 19 Farewell to the Abstract Heaven of Ideas-Outlines of a Philosophical Paradigm Shift -- Chapter 20 From the System of Values to the 'Clash of Values'-Weber's Reorganisation of the Neo-Kantian Philosophy of Values -- Chapter 21 Weber's Concept of Spheres of Value as a Modernisation of Ideological Societalisation.

Chapter 22 Ideal-Typical Conceptualisation's Blind Spot -- Part 4 The Ideal-Typical Construction of an Originary Protestant-Capitalist Spirit -- Chapter 23 The Ethico-Political Stakes of a 'Purely Historical Account' -- Chapter 24 The Basic Operation: Isolation of the 'Mental and Spiritual Particularities' -- Chapter 25 From German 'Cultural Protestantism' to Anglo-American 'Civil Religion' -- Chapter 26 Weber and Simmel: The Psychological 'Deepening' of Marxian Value Form Analysis -- Chapter 27 Werner Sombart's 'Overcoming' of Marxism -- Chapter 28 Weber's Dislodgement of the 'Spirit of Capitalism' from Capitalism -- Chapter 29 Weber's Perspective: Capitalist Spirit as a Popular Mass Movement -- Chapter 30 Outlook: The Social Components of Weber's Orientalist Sociology of Religion -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index.