Max Weber in America by Scaff, Lawrence A. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Contents List of Illustrations Preface Introduction Part 1: The American Journey

One: Thoughts about America

Traveling to Progressive America New Horizons of Thought A “Spiritualistic” Construction of the Modern Economy?

Two: The Land of Immigrants

Arriving in New York Church and Sect, Status and Class Settlements and Urban Space

Three: Capitalism

The City as Phantasmagoria Hull House, the Stockyards, and the Working Class Character as Social Capital

Four: Science and World Culture

The St. Louis Congress: Unity of the Sciences? The Last Time for a Free and Great Development: American Exceptionalism? The Politics of Art Gender, Education, and Authority

Five: Remnants of Romanticism

The Lure of the Frontier The Problems of Indian Territory Nature, Traditionalism, and the New World The Signifi cance of the Frontier

Six: The Color Line

Du Bois and the Study of Race The Lessons of Tuskegee Race and Ethnicity, Class and Caste

Seven: Different Ways of Life

Colonial Children Nothing Remains except Eternal Change Ecological Interlude Inner Life and Public World The Cool Objectivity of Sociation

Eight: The Protestant Ethic

Spirit and World William James and His Circle Ideas and Experience

Nine: American Modernity

Strange Contradictions Becoming American Cultural Pluralism

Ten: Interpretation of the Experience

The Discourse about America A Way Out of the Iron Cage? America in Weber’s Work

Part 2: The Work in America

Eleven: The Discovery of the Author

Author and Audience Networks of Scholars Translation History The Disciplines

Twelve: The Creation of the Sacred Text

An American in Heidelberg Parsons Translates The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Thirteen: The Invention of the Theory

Gerth and Mills Publish a Weber “Source Book” Parsons’s “Theory of Social and Economic Organization” Weber among the Émigrés Weberian Sociology and Social Theory Weber beyond Weberian Sociology

Appendix 1: Max and Marianne Weber’s Itinerary for the American Journey in 1904 Appendix 2: Max Weber, Selected Correspondence with American Colleagues, 1904–5 Archives and Collections Consulted Bibliographic Notes Index