request for sources: Marx versus Weber (fwd)

Amendeep, you are right on time!! i am studying exactly the same subject
matter for my comprehensive exams. let me offer you a couple of
readings on Marx versus Weber:

W.G. Runciman., _A Critique of Max Weber's Philosophy of Science_,
Cambridge University Press, 1972.

Karl Lowith., _Max Weber and Karl Marx_, London: George Allen&Unwin

Athony Kronman., _Max Weber_, Standford University Press, 1983.

Herbert Marcuse,"Industrilization and Capitalism in the Work of Max
Weber_ in _Negations : Essays in Critical Theory_ By Marcuse, Beacon
Press, 1968.

Jurgen Hebermas., "What Does a Crisis Mean Today: Legitimation Problems in
Late Capitalism", in Steven Seidman ed., _Jurgen Habermas on Society and
Politics_, BEacon Press, 1989.

Anthony Giddens., _Capitalism and Modern Social Theory: An Anlysis of the
writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber_, Cambridge Press, 1971.

Gianfranco Poggi, _Calvinism and the Capitalist Sprit: Max Weber's
Protestant Ethics_.

Wolfgang Schluchter., _Rationalism, Religion, and Domination_

Anthony Giddens., _Studies in Social and Political Theory_

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, "The Crisis of Understanding" in  _Adventures of
the Dialectic_ 

Randall Collins., "Weber's Last Theory Of Capitalism" in _Weberian
Sociological Theory_.

Lawrence Scaff, "Weber before Weberian Sociology_ in Keith Tribe ed.,
_Reading Weber_.

Peter Hohendahl., "The Dialectic of Enlightenment:Habermas' Critique of
the Frankfurt School", _New GErman Critique_ 35, 1985 (spring/summer).

Jurgen Habermas., _Lectures on the Philosophical Discourses of Modernity_
(here you can find a comparison of marx and weber), mit press, 1987.

A. Gouldner., _The Coming Crisis of WEstern Sociology_, New York, 1970.

Dietrich Rueschemeyer., _Power and the Division of Labor_, Standfod
University Press, 1986 (compares marx and weber's views on the division of
labor and capitalism)

hope this helps... 

bye,

Mine Doyran
phd, politics
SUNY/Albany


>Hello all,

>I am looking for some literature sources that contrast the Marxian and
>the Weberian conception of the origins of capitalism. Also, if there are
>some sources that critique Weber's Protestant Ethic Thesis, I would like
>to know these as well. 

>Sincerely,

>Amandeep