Max Weber: Collected Methodological Writings

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Weber's methodological writings are the bedrock for how the social, historical and cultural sciences conduct themselves as academic disciplines. Weber's critical discussion and exposition of key ideas - value freedom and value commitment, causality and imputation, understanding and explanation, theory building and ideal types, types of social action, and the progress of academic knowledge - are central to how social science is practised and taught. Until now Weber's extensive writings on methodology have lacked a comprehensive publication. For the first time, in any language, all of his articles, letters and conference interventions on methodology have been gathered together in one volume in a new and reliable translation. Relevant archival material is also published for the first time. The editorial apparatus, mindful of the reader, explains the context of, and interconnections between, all these writings. The volume is provided with a glossary of German terms and an English key, endnotes, bibliography, and person and subject indexes. The volume, the first of the 'Weber in Translation' series, is edited by two of the world's leading Weber scholars. The coherence and magnificence of Weber's achievement is now fully accessible and will trigger new debate.