Ursula Bube (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016 MWG I/18) the magisterial introduction by Schluchter (ibid., 1–59) is indispensable for an appreciation of the historical context of the PE and also provides the best guide to the textual differences between its two versions (ibid., 35–43). Die protestantischen Sekten und der Geist des Kapitalismus. Ursula Bube (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014 MWG I/9), which also contains the papers by Fischer and Rachfahl Max Weber, Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus. The definitive critical edition of the German texts of the PE (1904–1905, 1920) is now available in two volumes within the Max Weber Gesamtausgabe (MWG): Max Weber, Asketischer Protestantismus und Kapitalismus.
Wells (London: Penguin Classics, 2002), cited as Weber, PE (Baehr/Wells). For an English translation of the first version of the PE (1904–1905), including Weber’s papers (1907–1910) in his dispute with Fischer and Rachfahl (though not their papers), see Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the ‘Spirit’ of Capitalism and Other Writings, trans. Anthony Giddens (London and New York: Routledge, 2002), cited as Weber, PE (Parsons). I also give cross-references to the 1930 translation of the PE by Parsons since this is the most widely quoted and still the most accessible one (and occasionally better than Kalberg’s): Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, trans. Kalberg has also included related texts by Weber written between 19, such as the essay on ‘Protestant Sects’ (1920), various pieces scattered across Economy and Society (1909–1912, 1912–1914, 1919–1920), the (posthumous) General Economic History (1923), and, of course, the famous ‘Prefatory Remarks’ (1920) to the ‘Collected Essays on the Sociology of Religion’ (in which the PE features as the first piece). Stephen Kalberg (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 59–159 (text), 458–551 (notes), cited as Weber, PE (Kalberg).
Unless otherwise stated, I refer to the second edition of the PE (1920) in the new English translation by Kalberg: Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism with Other Writings on the Rise of the West, trans.
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