Max Weber: A BiographyMax Weber (1864-1920) is recognized throughout the world as the most important classic thinker in the social sciences – there is simply no one in the history of the social sciences who has been more influential. The affinity between capitalism and protestantism, the religious origins of the Western world, the force of charisma in religion as well as in politics, the all-embracing process of rationalization and the bureaucratic price of progress, the role of legitimacy and of violence as offsprings of leadership, the ‘disenchantment’ of the modern world together with the never-ending power of religion, the antagonistic relation between intellectualism and eroticism: all these are key concepts which attest to the enduring fascination of Weber’s thinking.
Joachim Radkau, born in 1943, is Professor of Modern History at the Bielefeld University, Germany. His interest in Max Weber dates back nearly forty years when he worked together with the German-American historian George W. F. Hallgarten (Washington), a refugee who left Germany in 1933 and who, as a student, listened to Weber’s last lecture in summer 1920. Radkau’s main works include Die deutsche Emigration in den USA (1971); Deutsche Industrie und Politik (together with G. W. F. Hallgarten, 1974), Aufstieg und Krise der deutschen Atomwirtschaft (1983), Technik in Deutschland (1989), Das Zeitalter der Nervosität (1998), Natur und Macht: Eine Weltgeschichte der Umwelt (2000). |
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... Russian affairs , at least in comparison with most other Germans ; hard as it is to believe , he apparently learned enough Russian in a few months in 1905 to understand Russian papers after a fashion ; and the Russian reading room in ...
... Russia . For he saw the Russian empire as the greatest danger to Germany : a danger that would be intensified if a revolutionary renewal of Russia gave free rein to the peasants ' land hunger ( MWG I / 10 , 273 , 679 ) . Otto Hoetzsch ...
A Biography Joachim Radkau. And the same is true of everything Russian . ... But if only the Russians could exercise moderation as we Germans do ! If this idea of German moderation could be combined with Russian excess , the resulting ...
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