THE FOUNDATION OF MODERN SOCIAL SCIENCE

WEBER, MAX.

Die römische Agrargeschichte in ihrer Bedeutung für das Staats- un Privatrecht. Mit zwei Tafeln.

Stuttgart, Verlag von Ferdinand Enke, 1891. 8vo. Near cont. full green cloth w. gilt lettering to spine. Old library marking removed from bottom of spine. Extremities w. traces of wear. Inner hinges reinforced. Old stamps to verso of title-page. VIII, 284 pp + 2 plates.

The rare first edition of Weber's influential Habilitationsschrift on Roman law and agrarian history, "Roman Agrarian History and its Significance for Public and Private Law".

Maximilian Carl Emil Weber (1864-1920) is one of the most important founders of modern sociology and cultural sciences (together with Karl Marx and Émile Durkheim).
His works have been, and are, of the utmost importance to the fields of sociology, corporational-, social-, musical-, political-sciences etc., and the terms and categories coined by him are now part of the normal vocabulary of these fields of study.

In his groundbreaking Habilitationsschrift, which he published at the age of 27, Weber examined the economic, social and political developments of Roman society, and thus laid the foundations of his establishing of modern sociology. He examined the methods of land surveying in Roman society, the terms that were used for the resulting land units, and agricultural works written by Roman authors.

As opposed to e.g. Durkheim, Weber took part in creating the antipositivist tradition, opposing the scientific methods of the social sciences to those of the natural sciences.

Weber began teaching at the University of Berlin, and later he taught at the Universities of Freiburg, Heidelberg, Vienna and Munich. He greatly influenced German politics at the time, and he was appointed the advisor of the German negotiators at both the Treaty of Versailles and the drafting of the Weimar Constitution.

Being without doubt the most important social theorist of the twentieth century and a principal architect of modern social science, Weber's seminal contributions helped form the new academic disciplines of sociology and public administration, and changed the way of perceiving law, economics, political science and religious studies.

Most of Max Weber's works were published posthumously with the aid of his wife.

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