Hubert Treiber - Böcker

Reading Max Weber's Sociology of Law serves both as an introduction and as a distillation of more than thirty years of reading and reflection on Weber's scholarship. It provides a solid and comprehensive introduction to Weber and sets out his main concepts. Drawing on recent research in the history of law, this book also presents and critiques the process by which the law was rationalized and which Weber divided into four ideal-typical stages of development. Hubert Treiber provides commentary in a manner informed both historically and sociologically. The book explores Weber's concepts in relation to the creation of laws between secular the religious powers. The book goes on to examine the codifications that were undertaken by Prussian absolutism and Napoleon in the Code Civil. It further covers Weber's thoughts on antiformal legal tendencies, issues that are still prevalent in law today.This text is no mere reiteration of Weber's concepts. The volume contextualizes Weber's work in the light of current research, setting out to amend misinterpretations and misunderstandings that have prevailed from Weber's original texts. Treiber's introduction is much more than a simple guide through a complicated text. It is an important work in its own right and critical for any student of the sociology of law.

This volume of collected essays by Hubert Treiber, one of Weber’s leading interpreters and an authoritative expert on Weber’s sociology of law, brings a number of translated works to English-speaking readers, offering the opportunity to gain a fuller and a more accurate understanding of Max Weber’s legal thinking.The book contains six essays by Treiber, and an important essay by Monika Frommel in response to Treiber. Throughout the collection, the chapters are united by the thread of Treiber’s consistent attempts to provide historical contexts and to clarify Weber’s legal concepts and definitions. The concepts discussed communicate to English readers the specific meanings that Weber associated with them in the German original, and which may have been missed by those who do not know German or who have historically relied on imprecise translations.As such, it brings together and makes accessible a new and important body of knowledge concerning Max Weber’s sociology of law and will appeal to scholars and researchers with interests in Max Weber, social theory, philosophy of law, jurisprudence, and philosophy of social sciences.