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Max Weber and His Contemporaries provides an unrivalled tour
d'horizon of European intellectual life in the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries and an assessment of the pivotal position
within it occupied by Max Weber. Weber's many interests in and
contributions to, such diverse fields as epistemology, political
sociology, the sociology of religion and economic history are
compared with and connected to those of his friends, pupils and
antagonists and also of those contemporaries with whom he had
neither a personal relationship nor any kind of scholoarly
exchange. Several contributors also explore Weber's attitudes
towards the most important political positions of his time
(socialism, conservatism and anarchism) and his own involvement in
German politics. This volume contributes not only to a better
understanding of one of the most eminent modern thinkers and social
scientists, but also provides an intellectual biography of a
remarkable generation. This book was first published in 1987.
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Wolfgang J. Mommsen, Jurgen Osterhammel
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Max Weber (1894-1920) is generally recognized as one of the
founding fathers of modern sociology. This collection pays homage
to his continuing influence, not just within sociology, but also
political theory, science and religion. The books carefully chosen
for this collection provide an overview of all his most important
ideas. They are critically assessed and analyzed to gain a real
comprehension of his life's work.
This book, first published in 1983, illustrates the domestic and
internal dimension of appeasement and explores the political
options open to the western powers in the run up to the Second
World War. It looks at the factors pointing in the direction of a
general settlement with the dictators: limitation of resources and
strategic over-commitment by Britain; economic decline and
financial exhaustion of France; lack of support from the United
States and the Soviet Union.
This book, first published in 1983, illustrates the domestic and
internal dimension of appeasement and explores the political
options open to the western powers in the run up to the Second
World War. It looks at the factors pointing in the direction of a
general settlement with the dictators: limitation of resources and
strategic over-commitment by Britain; economic decline and
financial exhaustion of France; lack of support from the United
States and the Soviet Union.
Max Weber and His Contemporaries provides an unrivalled tour
d'horizon of European intellectual life in the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries and an assessment of the pivotal position
within it occupied by Max Weber. Weber's many interests in and
contributions to, such diverse fields as epistemology, political
sociology, the sociology of religion and economic history are
compared with and connected to those of his friends, pupils and
antagonists and also of those contemporaries with whom he had
neither a personal relationship nor any kind of scholoarly
exchange. Several contributors also explore Weber's attitudes
towards the most important political positions of his time
(socialism, conservatism and anarchism) and his own involvement in
German politics. This volume contributes not only to a better
understanding of one of the most eminent modern thinkers and social
scientists, but also provides an intellectual biography of a
remarkable generation. This book was first published in 1987.
This stimulating collection of essays by distinguished British,
American, Australian and German scholars, originally published in
1985, offers a picture of the upsurge of New Unionism and the
growth of old unions, and looks at the severe setbacks which
occurred in the labour movements of Britain and Germany between the
1880s and the First World War. Labour history is seen from a
European perspective and special emphasis is placed on the role of
the state in Britain and Germany in its desire to contain and
suppress trade union activity by law or force. Insights are
provided into the political allegiances of the unions and their
members to the parties of the working class and the state.
The historian Wolfgang Mommsen was one of the foremost experts on
Max Weber as well as an insightful and accessible interpreter of
his work. Mommsen's classic book, first published in 1974 under the
title The Age of Bureaucracy, not only concisely explains the basic
concepts underlying Weber's worldview, but also explores the
historical, social, and intellectual contexts in which he operated,
including Weber's development as an academic, his relationship to
German nationalism, and his engagement with Marxism. Supplemented
with a new foreword, a bibliography that includes recent studies,
and a postscript by Volker Berghahn that surveys the most important
debates on Weber's work since his death, this short volume serves
as an excellent resource for scholars and students alike.
Globalization presents major challenges to scholars of history.
Different variants of global history and world history compete
with, and transform, more traditional approaches of national,
regional, and local scope, accompanied by new forms of
international and transcultural cooperation. However, as this book
shows, these transnational trends in the historical discipline are
not without precedent. Based on painstaking research, this volume
reconstructs the history of the International Congresses of
Historians from the first one in The Hague, 1898, to the nineteenth
in Oslo, 2000. It also tells the story of the International
Committee of the Historical Sciences, the world organization of
historians, which was founded, with much American support, in 1926
and today includes 54 national committees and 28 affiliated
international organizations from all parts of the world. Karl
Dietrich Erdmann, former president of this organization, covered
the story up to 1985. Wolfgang J. Mommsen continued it into the
twenty-first century. This book traces and analyzes the changes of
historians' problems, topics, and methods, as reflected at their
International Congresses and in the work of their international
organization. It describes the cleavages, debates, and forging of
ties among historians from different parts of the world and
ideological camps. It demonstrates how historians fought against
academic nationalism-or succumbed to its seduction. It shows how
the Cold War polarized the world of historians whereas the
International Congresses offered a platform for bridging the gap.
Since 1990, they have helped to redefine the relationship between
historians from the West and from other parts of the world. The
internationalization of the study of history is reaching a new
quality. Karl Dietrich Erdmann's book was first published in German
in 1987. It has been translated, updated, and edited for an
international audience of the twenty-first century.
A major work of German historiography, this comprehensive account
of Weber's political views and activities reveals that,
paradoxically, Weber was at once an ardent liberal and a determined
German nationalist and imperialist. Wolfgang J. Mommsen shows the
important links between these seemingly conflicting positions and
provides a critique of Weber's sociology of power and his concept
of democratic rule. First published in German in 1959, Max Weber
and German Politics appeared in a revised edition in 1974 and
became available in an English translation only in 1984. In writing
this work, Mommsen drew extensively on Weber's published and
unpublished essays, newspaper articles, memoranda, and
correspondence."
The historian Wolfgang Mommsen was one of the foremost experts on
Max Weber as well as an insightful and accessible interpreter of
his work. Mommsen's classic book, first published in 1974 under the
title The Age of Bureaucracy, not only concisely explains the basic
concepts underlying Weber's worldview, but also explores the
historical, social, and intellectual contexts in which he operated,
including Weber's development as an academic, his relationship to
German nationalism, and his engagement with Marxism. Supplemented
with a new foreword, a bibliography that includes recent studies,
and a postscript by Volker Berghahn that surveys the most important
debates on Weber's work since his death, this short volume serves
as an excellent resource for scholars and students alike.
English summary: The Max Weber-Studienausgabe (MWS) renders Max
Weber's works and speeches accessible to a large audience, using
the complete and reliable Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe (MWG) as its
basis while deliberately dispensing with its editorial apparatus.
It has however been laid out in such a manner that the reader can
easily fall back on the MWG . In this volume, Max Weber presents
the most important forms of past and present communities and their
structural principles. These range from the household to the
family, the firm and then to ethnic and political communities. The
market society is given a special position. German description: Die
Max Weber-Studienausgabe (MWS) will die Schriften und Reden Max
Webers auf der gesicherten Textgrundlage der Max
Weber-Gesamtausgabe (MWG) allgemein zuganglich machen, unter
Verzicht auf den editorischen Apparat. Dabei ist sie so angelegt,
dass dem Benutzer der Ruckgriff auf die MWG jederzeit moglich ist.
Deshalb folgt die Studienausgabe in Textkonstitution und Anordnung
der Texte durchgangig der MWG. Um dem Leser daruber hinaus das
Aufsuchen von Fundstellen zu erleichtern, sind am Fuss jeder Seite
die entsprechenden Seitenzahlen der MWG angegeben. Ausserdem wird
auf die gangigen Ausgaben verwiesen, die bisher in der
Sekundarliteratur gebrauchlich sind.Dieser Band prasentiert sieben
nachgelassene Texte Max Webers zum Thema 'Gemeinschaften', die fur
sein grosses unvollendet gebliebenes Werk 'Wirtschaft und
Gesellschaft' bestimmt waren. An den ersten Text uber die Arten des
Wirtschaftens schliessen sich Max Webers Ausfuhrungen uber die
verschiedenen Gemeinschaftsformen an. Ausgehend von der
Hausgemeinschaft als der 'urwuchsigsten' Form beschreibt Max Weber
die Entwicklung uber Familie und Betrieb bis hin zu den ethnischen
und politischen Gemeinschaften, gipfelnd in einer Kritik an der
'Idee der Nation'. Beigefugt sind ausserdem zwei unvollendete Texte
uber die 'Marktgemeinschaft' und 'Klassen', 'Stande' und 'Parteien'
sowie ein uberlieferter Gliederungsentwurf zum Thema
'Kriegerstande'. Fur die Gemeinschaftsformen verneint Max Weber
eine Zwangslaufigkeit der Entwicklung und wendet sich damit gegen
die zeitgenossisch sehr einflussreiche Theorie einer teleologischen
'Stufenfolge' der Menschheitsgeschichte. Diese
wissenschaftsgeschichtlichen Hintergrunde werden in der Einleitung
herausgearbeitet und zugleich mit der Werkbiographie verknupft, so
dass ein Bogen von Max Webers fruhen nationalokonomischen
Vorlesungen bis hin zu seinem soziologischen Hauptwerk geschlagen
wird.
The power of the Prussian state, with its outward splendour and
military pageantry, and with the prestige it began to enjoy within
the system of European states, gradually came to outweigh older
traditions of cultural identity. The imperial period saw the
formation of all the principal institutional structures which have
continued to govern life in Germany, and all the foundations of
present-day cultural life. Yet the German Empire remained a state
distorted by authoritarianism. All areas of life were affected,
politics, the economy, the arts, education and foreign policy, and
a widening gulf opened between the political system and society,
putting at risk the very governability of the Empire. It was in
these conditions that Germany went to war in 1914, a conflict which
ended with the collapse of the Hohenzollern monarchy and
revolution. This book offers a cogent analysis of the main
developments and issues in a formative and portentous period of
Germany's history.
In recent years the discussion of imperialism has become so
compartmentalized that it is difficult for somebody who is not
directly involved to put the often polemical discussion and the
various scientific and political positions forward into a relevant
context. Mommsen's survey is an excellent guide.--German Studies,
on the German edition.
Theories of Imperialism is the most succinct, fairest, and most
sophisticated statement I have seen of the range of theories of
imperialism. Each set of theorists is come at in their own terms,
described fairly, and summarized fully. The book is objective,
readable, and short.--Robin W. Winks, Yale University
English summary: Weber's famous speeches which he delivered to
students in Munich at the end of his life, are presented together
in a historical critical edition for the first time. Included are
also a newspaper report of Science as a Vocation and the notes
Weber used for Politics as a Vocation Through an introduction as
well as through editorial reports and detailed commentaries the
speeches, which Weber had revised for publication, are made
accessible to the reader as never before. They contain Weber's view
of the modern world and its meaning problems in essence. German
description: Auf Einladung des Freistudentischen Bundes,
Landesverband Bayern, sprach Max Weber am 7. November 1917 zunachst
uber Wissenschaft als Beruf, am 28. Januar 1919 uber Politik als
Beruf in Munchen. Beide Vortrage waren Teil einer Reihe 'Geistige
Arbeit als Beruf' und sollten aus der Sicht der Veranstalter
Sachverstandigengutachten sein. Weber nutzte beide Gelegenheiten,
um nicht nur uber die aussere Seite dieser Berufe, sondern auch
uber ihre innere Seite, ihren Sinn, zu sprechen. Beider Vortrage
wurden in uberarbeiteter Form zuerst 1919 als Broschuren
publiziert. Sie sind zu klassischen Texten der Kultur- und
Sozialwissenschaften geworden. Seit ihrem Erscheinen haben sie die
Diskussion um den Sinn der Wissenschaft in der
Industriegesellschaft und der Politik in der Massendemokratie
mitbestimmt. Die Vortrage gehoren nach Anlass, Adressatenkreis und
Zielsetzung zusammen. Deshalb wurden sie hier in einem Band ediert.
Dies ist ein Novum. Neu ist auch, dass Vorformen der Vortrage
mitgeteilt werden - im Falle von Wissenschaft als Beruf ein
Zeitungsbericht, im Falle von Politik als Beruf Webers
Stichwortmanuskript - und dass der Vergleich zwischen Vorform und
Druckfassung durch die Textprasentation erleichtert wird. Dies
erlaubt es dem Leser, die Textgenese zu verfolgen. In der
Einleitung werden die werk-, zeit- und theoriegeschichtlichen
Zusammenhange skizziert, in denen die Vortrage stehen. Editorische
Berichte und Sachkommentare schliessen die Texte fur den Leser
weiter auf. Deren andauernde Aktualitat kommt nicht zuletzt auch
daher, dass Weber hier eine 'philosophische' Position formuliert,
die um die Begriffe Berufspflicht, Selbstbegrenzung und
Personlichkeit zentriert ist. Es geht ihm in beiden Vortragen
letztlich um das Schicksal des Menschen in der modernen Welt.
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