Weber's essay The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is his most famous work.

In political sociology, one of Weber's most significant contributions is his Politics as a Vocation essay.

* Radkau, Joachim ( 2005 ), Max Weber most important Weber biography on Max Weber's life and torments since Marianne Weber.

The most commonly used definition is Max Weber's, which describes the state as a compulsory political organization with a centralized government that maintains a monopoly of the legitimate use of force within a certain territory.

This approach was most notably portrayed in Max Weber's concepts of traditional authority and modern rational-legal authority.

Weber's innovations were eclipsed by those of Richard Wagner, one of the most revolutionary and controversial figures in musical history.

Weber's most important successor in the field of Romantic opera was Heinrich Marschner, who further explored the Gothic and the supernatural in works such as Der Vampyr ( 1828 ) and Hans Heiling ( 1833 ).

The first-edition hardcover releases of War of Honor, At All Costs, Torch of Freedom, and Mission of Honor contained a CD with copies of most of Weber's published books at the time, labeled for free redistribution.

Weber's work regarding the relationship between economics and religion and the cultural " disenchantment " of the modern West is perhaps most iconic of the approach set forth in the classic period of economic sociology.

Weber's research papers were numerous, most of them appearing in Crelle's Journal or Mathematische Annalen.

Weber's idea of the Protestant work ethic and Hegel's Spirit were certainly influential.

This chronicle was supposedly destroyed because Marianne Weber feared that Max Weber's work would be discredited by the Nazis if his experience with mental illness were widely known.

Especially important to Weber's work is the neo-Kantian belief that reality is essentially chaotic and incomprehensible, with all rational order deriving from the way in which the human mind focuses its attention on certain aspects of reality and organises the resulting perceptions.

Weber's opinions regarding the methodology of the social sciences show parallels with the work of contemporary neo-Kantian philosopher and pioneering sociologist Georg Simmel.

Though the influence of his mother's Calvinist religiosity is evident throughout Weber's life and work, and though he maintained a deep, lifelong interest in the study of religions, Weber was open about the fact that he was personally irreligious.

Many scholars have described rationalisation and the question of individual freedom in an increasingly rational society, as the main theme of Weber's work.

Weber's work in the field of sociology of religion started with the essay The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and continued with the analysis of The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism, The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism and Ancient Judaism.

It is argued that this work should not be viewed as a detailed study of Protestantism, but rather as an introduction into Weber's later works, especially his studies of interaction between various religious ideas and economic behaviour as part of the rationalisation of the economic system.

Another reason for Weber's decision was that Troeltsch's work already achieved what he desired in that area: laying the groundwork for a comparative analysis of religion and society.

The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism was Weber's second major work on the sociology of religion.

The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism was Weber's third major work on the sociology of religion.

Weber's best known work in economics concerned the preconditions for capitalist development, particularly the relations between religion and capitalism, which he explored in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism as well as in his other works on the sociology of religion.

Though today read primarily by sociologists and social philosophers, Weber's work did have a significant influence on Frank Knight, one of the founders of the neoclassical Chicago school of economics, who translated Weber's General Economic History into English in 1927.

Weber's work is generally quoted according to the critical Gesamtausgabe ( collected works edition ), which is published by Mohr Siebeck in Tübingen.

The theme of a religious basis of economic discipline is echoed in sociologist Max Weber's work, but both de Tocqueville and Weber argued that this discipline was not a force of economic determinism, but one factor among many that should be considered when evaluating the relative economic success of the Puritans.

1798 also saw the twelve year old Weber's first published work, six fughettas for piano, published in Leipzig.

Indeed, the first use of the word " Leitmotif " in print was by the critic Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns in describing Weber's work, although this was not until 1871.

These explorations into the achievement motive seem to turn naturally into the investigation of national differences based on Max Weber's thesis that the industrialization and economic development of the Western nations were related to the Protestant ethic and its corresponding values supporting work and achievement.

Ludwig von Mises was influenced by several theories in forming his work on praxeology, including Immanuel Kant's works, Max Weber's work on methodological individualism, and Carl Menger's development of the subjective theory of value.

Weber's work formed one of the bases of psychology as a science, with Wilhelm Wundt founding the first laboratory for psychological research.

Dunlap and Catton's work immediately received a critique from Frederick Buttel who argued to the contrary that classical sociological foundations could be found for environmental sociology, particularly in Weber's work on ancient " agrarian civilizations " and Durkheim's view of the division of labor as built on a material premise of specialization / specialization in response to material scarcity.

Weber's main intellectual concern was understanding the processes of rationalisation, secularization, and " disenchantment " that he associated with the rise of capitalism and modernity and which he saw as the result of a new way of thinking about the world.

Weber's 1876 Christmas presents to his parents, when he was thirteen years old, were two historical essays entitled " About the course of German history, with special reference to the positions of the Emperor and the Pope ," and " About the Roman Imperial period from Constantine to the migration of nations.

Weber was put in charge of the study and wrote a large part of the final report, which generated considerable attention and controversy and marked the beginning of Weber's renown as a social scientist.

From 1893 to 1899 Weber was a member of the Alldeutscher Verband ( Pan-German League ), an organisation that campaigned against the influx of the Polish workers ; the degree of Weber's support for the Germanisation of Poles and similar nationalist policies is still debated by modern scholars.

Also in 1893 he married his distant cousin Marianne Schnitger, later a feminist activist and author in her own right, who was instrumental in collecting and publishing Weber's journal articles as books after his death and her biography of him is an important source for understanding Weber's life.

Weber's ordeal with mental illness was carefully described in a personal chronology that was destroyed by his wife.

Weber's thinking was strongly influenced by German idealism and particularly by neo-Kantianism, to which he had been exposed through Heinrich Rickert, his professorial colleague at the University of Freiburg.

Weber's methodology was developed in the context of a wider debate about methodology of social sciences, the Methodenstreit.

Weber's position was close to historicism, as he understood social actions as being heavily tied to particular historical contexts and its analysis required the understanding of subjective motivations of individuals ( social actors ).

Adorno was chiefly influenced by Max Weber's critique of disenchantment, Georg Lukács's Hegelian interpretation of Marxism, as well as Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history.

Topelius initially thought of writing a trivial entertainment, but having heard extracts from the opera project at a concert in 1851, he realized that Pacius was writing a grand opera on the theme of salvation, following the early Romantic style of Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz ( 1821 ) and Oberon ( 1826 ).

This interest was first manifested in Weber's incidental music for Schiller's translation of Gozzi's Turandot, for which he used a Chinese melody, making him the first Western composer to use an Asian tune that was not of the pseudo-Turkish kind popularized by Mozart and others.

Weber's shorter piano pieces, such as the Invitation to the Dance, was later orchestrated by Berlioz, while his Polacca Brillante was later set for piano and orchestra by Liszt.