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- Title
Much More than a Mere Translation -- Talcott Parsons's Translation into English of Max Weber's Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus: An Essay in Intellectual History.
- Authors
Gerhardt, Uta
- Abstract
The essay focuses on the young Parsons, discussing his translation of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (first published in 1930). Parsons's understanding of Weber in his Dr. phil. dissertation is one backdrop to his translation, whereas another is American sociology in the late 1920s. In my view, Parsons's comprehension of Weber's methodology as used in The Protestant Ethic is closer to Weber's original than that of the recent retranslation published in 2002. As an accomplishment fitting his intellectual biography, Parsons's work in the 1930s rescued Weber's thought from certain misconception at the hands of the Nazis.
- Subjects
PROTESTANT Ethic &; the Spirit of Capitalism, The (Book : Weber); WEBER, Max, 1864-1920; PARSONS, Talcott, 1902-1979; ECONOMICS; PROTESTANT work ethic; CAPITALISM; FREE enterprise; POLITICAL attitudes
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 2007, Vol 32, Issue 1, p41
- ISSN
0318-6431
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/20460615