Book Review:
Max Webers Wissenschaftslehre, Mamoru Mukai, Minerva Shobo LTD., Kyoto, 1997 (written in Japanese).

Mamoru Mukai analyses the development of Weber's methodological ideas and concepts of Social Science. This books helps me to understand the whole contents of Weber's methodology and how he struggled and developed it. In addition, this study reveals Weber's reversed position toward value judgment (Wertfreiheit) before and after his mental depression during 1898-1902. Mental illness forced Weber to abandon his value judging studies and lectures and then opened his way to a new creativity. A significant contribution.

Book Review:
The Reconstruction of Max Weber's Economy and Society -- The Head of the "Torso," Hiroshi Orihara, University of Tokyo Press, 1996 (written in Japanese).

The author, Orihara, studying Weber's texts for more than 40 years, reconstructs Weber's early written texts of Economy and Society with strictly scientific method and painstaking labors. He lists and identifies all referring texts and examines each contextual position. In this process, he discovers the editors' insertions and mis-arrangements of texts, which are odd to Weber's strictly logical writings. And Orihara proves the hypothesis that the Categories of Understanding Sociology was the first part of the early Economy and Society. This study compels me to reconsider my Web project of Weber's Texts of Understanding Sociology (Economy and Society), especially the terms of Weber's basic concepts and the order of Sociology of Charisma. Anyone who wants to understand Weber's Economy and Society seriously must refer this fundamental text critics and reconstruction. A great contribution. Abstract (1) and Abstract (2) are available in Koelner Zeitschrift fuer Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie.