The Rejection and the Meaning of the World

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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 essay written by Max 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.^[1]

References

^ Wardega, Artur K. (2012-03-15). In the Light and Shadow of an Emperor: Tomás Pereira, SJ (1645–1708), the Kangxi Emperor and the Jesuit Mission in China. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 146–147. ISBN 978-1-4438-3854-2.

External links

Online ebook of World Rejection and Theodicy

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Books	Zur Geschichte der Handelsgesellschaften im Mittelalter (1889) 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 Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905) The Economic Ethics of the World Religions The Religion of China (1915) The Religion of India (1916) Ancient Judaism (1921) Sociology of Religion (1920) The City (1921) Economy and Society (1922)
Essays	"The 'Objectivity' of Knowledge in Social Science and Social Policy" (1904) "The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism" (1904) "The Rejection and the Meaning of the World" (1916)
Lectures	"Science as a Vocation" (1917) "Politics as a Vocation" (1919) General Economic History (1923)
Concepts	Disenchantment Ethic of ultimate ends Ideal type Inner-worldly asceticism Iron cage Life chances Methodological individualism Monopoly on violence Protestant work ethic Rationalisation Social action Affectional Traditional Instrumental Value-rational Three-component theory of stratification Tripartite classification of authority Charismatic Rational-legal Traditional Value-freedom Verstehen
People	Max Weber Sr. (father) Alfred Weber (brother) Marianne Weber (wife)
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