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.” ...

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 ...

Max Weber was one of 50 million victims who died during the 1918 influenza epidemic, also known as Spanish flu. He was only 56 years old — most likely with many famous books still in him.

These events framed the much-anticipated lecture “Politics as a Vocation” that Klemperer’s colleague Max Weber gave that same year. One hundred years later, there are few better texts to serve as a ...

Max Weber. Buy on Bookshop. New York Review of Books, 176 pp., $15.95. Modern invocations of the work ethic are usually misreadings: The Protestant Ethic was more lament than celebration.

Max Weber (1864-1920) was a German sociologist who taught both before and during the first world war at the universities of Freiburg, Heidelberg and Munich.

How Max Weber Explains Impeachment ... Weber’s lecture was draped in great expectation and drama. By 1917, he was not just an academic but Germany’s most famous and influential public ...

This semester, I am having the pleasure of teaching Max Weber‘s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism for the second time. Doing so is renewing my appreciation for one of the great ...

Max Weber was among the first thinkers to draw our attention to these crucial moral and spiritual dimensions of economic behavior–and for that reason his work remains as vital and important ...