1st Edition

Illuminating Max Weber’s Sociology of Law and Methodological Writings Collected Essays

By Hubert Treiber Copyright 2026
192 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction

1.  A Critical Reading of Max Weber on the Law and the Rationalisation of the Law (The ‘Sociology of Law’)

2. “Objectivising Knowledge” Rather Than “Artistic Suggestiveness” or “Tact”: On a Forgotten Term and a                                     Neglected Author in Max Weber’s “Theory of Science”

3. Max Weber and Eugen Ehrlich: On the Janus-Headed Construction of Weber’s Ideal Type in the Sociology of Law.

4. On Weber’s Types of Empirical and Scientifico-theoretical Legal Training, and his Partiality for ‘Logic’

5. On Max Weber’s Concept of Power

6. Max Weber’s Conception of the State: The State as Anstalt and as Validated Conception with especial reference                      to Kelsen’s Critique of Weber

Appendix I    System and Casuistry in Modern Law – Interdisciplinary Thoughts on Hubert Treiber’s Invitation to read Max  Weber by Monika Frommel

Original Sources

Index

 

Biography

Hubert Treiber is Professor Emeritus of Administrative Sciences at the Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany.