On Charisma and Institution Building: Selected Writings

Eisenstadt's edition, comprising some of Weber's most famous essays on charisma and routinization and a stellar introduction, is one of the best points of entry into Weber's work out there. Along with Bendix, Shils, Schluchter, and Parsons (to a lesser degree), Eisenstadt is one of the most learned and systematic interpreters of Weber and an insightful sociologist in his own right. His introduction, which takes up a sizeable portion of the book, synthesizes and makes explicit some of the many possible connections available in the text, and is an excellent resource in and of itself.