I recently joined my AEI colleagues for a spirited seminar on Max Weber’s classic 1919 lecture, “Politics as a Vocation.” Weber gave it to his Munich University students less than three months after ...
I n 1917 and 1919, at the invitation of University of Munich students, Max Weber delivered two public lectures, “Science as a Vocation” and “Politics as a Vocation.” Why read these lectures today?
Democracy has its proper place,” Max Weber allowed in his 1917 lecture “Science as Vocation,” but not in higher education. Academic training, he insisted, “is a matter ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education: What’s Max Weber Doing in the Columbia Antisemitism Report?
T he fourth and final report issued by Columbia University’s Task Force on Antisemitism invokes the great German sociologist Max Weber not once but twice. The first reference involves a version of ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Max Weber’s Ethical Pedagogy for a Nihilistic Age
MSN: Quote of the day by German sociologist Max Weber: 'One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician…'
In times of political turbulence, when rhetoric often drowns out reason, the words of Max Weber return with striking clarity. Writing in the aftermath of World War I, amid the collapse of empires and ...
Quote of the day by German sociologist Max Weber: 'One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician…'
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