The Rejection and the Meaning of the World

The Rejection and the Meaning of the World, known also as World Rejection and Theodicy (German: Stufen und Richtungen der religiösen Weltablehnung), is a 1916 book written by Maximilian Weber, a German economist and sociologist. The original edition was published in German as an essay in the 1916 issues of the Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialforschung, and various translations to English exist.

In this book Weber analyses the unavoidable tensions between religious values and worldly activities.

External links

Online ebook of World Rejection and Theodicy

Max Weber
Bibliography List of speeches
Books	Roman Agrarian History and its Significance for Public and Private Law (1891) Condition of Farm Labour in Eastern Germany (1892) The Stock Exchange (1896) The Objectivity of the Sociological and Social-Political Knowledge (1904) The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905) The Religion of China (1915) The Religion of India (1916) The Rejection and the Meaning of the World (1916) Sociology of Religion (1920) Ancient Judaism (1921) The City (1921) Economy and Society (1922) Basic Concepts in Sociology (1922) The Theory of Social and Economic Organization (1947) The Three Types of Legitimate Rule (1958) Sociology of Community Sociology of Rulership and Religion Sociology of the World Religions
Concepts	Weberian bureaucracy Charismatic authority Disenchantment Ideal type Iron cage Life chances Methodological individualism Monopoly on violence Protestant work ethic Rationalisation Social action Three-component stratification Tripartite classification of authority Verstehen
Essays	"The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism" (1904) "Politics as a Vocation" (1919)
Lectures	Science as a Vocation (1918) Wirtschaftsgeschichte (1923)
Related	Zur Geschichte der Handelsgesellschaften im Mittelalter
People	Max Weber Sr. (father) Alfred Weber (brother) Marianne Weber (wife)

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