People worked hard long before there was a thing called the “work ethic,” much less a “Protestant work ethic.” The phrase itself emerged early in the twentieth century and has since congealed into a ...

Amid the chaos of the 1918-19 Munich Revolution, the sociologist Max Weber delivered an urgent warning about the perils of demagoguery, fanaticism, and charismatic leaders who confuse conviction with ...

In 1904, the sociologist Max Weber traveled across the United States, loved what he saw and wrote about it. In return, America became a fan of Max Weber’s writings long before his homeland Germany.

I n the summer of 1917, a group of university students in Munich invited Max Weber to launch a lecture series on “intellectual work as a vocation” with a talk about the scholar’s work. He was, in a ...

Max Weber, a Russian-born Jewish painter who became one of the pioneers of modern art in the United States, died yesterday at his home in Great Neck, N.Y. at the age of 80. His paintings on Hebraic, ...

This paper examines the concept of brotherly love as utilized by Max Weber in his sociology of religion and, especially, in his famous 'vocational' speeches. It argues that a central concern of Weber ...

In the century since Max Weber published The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, the book has been subject to severe and sustained criticism, much of it justified. Yet reflecting on its ...

MAX WEBER IN AMERICA? The idea seems almost preposterous. We often think of Weber as the quintessential European thinker: abstract, worldly, brooding, and difficult. The America of his period of ...

Max Weber wie Hannah Arendt sind stark beeinflusst von der deutschen Tradition der Kulturkritik. Im Gegensatz zur Frankfurter Schule sehen jedoch beide in demokratischer Politik die bedeutendste ...