In The Sociology of Religion, first published in the United States in 1963, Max Weber looks at the significant role religion has played in social change throughout history. The book was a formative text of the new discipline of sociology and has gone on
The Protestant ethic — a moral code stressing hard work, rigorous self-discipline, and the organization of one's life in the service of God — was made famous by sociologist and political economist Max Weber. In this brilliant study (his best-known and
The great three-volume Principia Mathematica is deservedly the most famous work ever written on the foundations of mathematics. Its aim is to deduce all the fundamental propositions of logic and mathematics from a small number of logical premisses and pri
Six lectures delivered at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, & two at the University of ChicagoPrefaceImportance Expression UnderstandingPerspective Forms of process Civilized universeNature lifelessNature aliveThe aim of philosophyIndex
Presents the texts of a series of lectures delivered between 1912 & 1928 on the purposes & practice of education.PrefaceThe aims of educationThe rhythm of educationThe rhythmic claims of freedom & disciplineTechnical education & its relati
This distinguished little book offers a brisk introduction to a series of mathematical concepts, a history of their development, and a concise summary of how today's reader may use them.
One of the major philosophical texts of the 20th century, Process and Reality is based on Alfred North Whitehead’s influential lectures that he delivered at the University of Edinburgh in the 1920s on process philosophy.Whitehead’s master work in phil
This classic text in American Philosophy by one of the foremost figures in American philosophy offers a concise analysis of the various factors in human nature which go toward forming a religion, to exhibit the inevitable transformation of religion with t
