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WEBER MAX WEBER AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES MAX WEBER AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES WOLFGANG J. MOMMSEN AND JÜRGEN OSTERHAMMEL First published in 1987 Reprinted in 2006 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN or 270 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 First issued in paperback 2010 Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 1987 German Historical Institute All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. The publishers have made every effort to contact authors and copyright holders of the works reprinted in the Weber series. 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MOMMSEN and JURGEN OSTERHAMMEL THE GERMAN HISTORICAL INSTITUTE ~~ ~~~;~;n~s~~up LONDON AND NEW YORK © German Historical Institute, 1987 This book is copyright under the Berne Convention. No reproduction without permission. All rights reserved. Published by the Academic Division of Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX 14 4RN 270MadisonAve, New York NY 10016 First published in 1987 First published in paperback in 1989 British Library Cataloging in Publication Data Max Weber and his contemporaries. 1. Weber, Max I. Mommsen, Wolfgang J. II. Osterhammel, Jiirgen III. German Historical Institute 301'.092'4 HM22.G3W4 ISBN 0-04-301262-0 (hb) ISBN 0-04-445148-2 (pb) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Max Weber and his contemporaries. Includes index. 1. Weber, Max, 1864-1920. 2. Sociology-Germany History.!. Mommsen, WolfgangJ., 1930- 11. Osterhammel, Jiirgen. Ill. German Historical Institute in London. HM22.G3A3 1986 301' .092'4 86-14198 Typeset in 10 on 11 point Times by Mathematical Composition Setters, Ltd, Salisbury Contents Preface page xi Abbreviations xiii Introduction Wolfgang J. Mommsen Part I Max Weber and the Social Sciences at the Turn of 23 the Century 2 A Science of Man: Max Weber and the Political Economy of the 25 German Historical School Wilhelm Hennis 3 Gustav Schmoller and Max Weber 59 Manfred Schon 4 Max Weber and the 'Younger' Generation in the Verein fiir 71 Sozia1politik Dieter Kruger 5 Max and Alfred Weber in the Verein fiir Sozialpolitik 88 Eberhard Demm 6 Personal Conflict and Ideological Options in Sombart and 99 Weber Arthur Mitzman 7 Varieties of Social Economics: Joseph A. Schumpeter and 106 Max Weber Jiirgen Osterhammel 8 Robert Michels and Max Weber: Moral Conviction versus 121 the Politics of Responsibility Wolfgang J. Mommsen 9 Mosca, Pareto and Weber: A Historical Comparison 139 David Beetham 10 Georges Sorel and Max Weber 159 J. G. Merquior 11 Mill and Weber on History, Freedom and Reason 170 Alan Ryan 12 Weber and Durkheim: Coincidence and Divergence 182 Anthony Giddens Part II Max Weber's Relation to the Theologians 191 and Historians 13 Max Weber and the Evangelical-Social Congress 193 Rita A/denhoff viii Max Weber and his Contemporaries 14 Max Weber and the Lutherans 203 W. R. Ward 15 Friendship between Experts: Notes on Weber and Troeltsch 215 Friedrich Wilhelm Graf 16 Max Weber and Eduard Meyer 234 Friedrich H. Tenbruck 17 Karl Lamprecht and Max Weber: Historical Sociology within 268 the Confines of a Historians' Controversy Sam Whimster 18 Otto Hintze and Max Weber: Attempts at a Comparison 284 Jiirgen Kocka Part III The Realm of Politics 297 19 Friedrich Naumann and Max Weber: Aspects of a Political 299 Partnership Peter Theiner 20 Max Weber and Walther Rathenau 311 Ernst Schulin 21 Gustav Stresemann and Max Weber: Politics and Scholarship 323 Gangolj Hiibinger 22 Dietrich Schafer and Max Weber 334 Roger Chickering 23 Eduard Bernstein and Max Weber 345 John Breuilly 24 Max Weber, Karl Kautsky and German Social Democracy 355 Dick Geary 25 Max Weber's Relation to Anarchism and Anarchists: 367 The Case of Ernst Toller Dittmar Dahlmann 26 Max Weber and Antonio Gramsci 382 Carl Levy Part IV Max Weber and Philosophical Thought 403 27 Weber and Nietzsche: Questioning the Liberation 405 of Social Science from Historicism Robert Eden 28 The Ambiguity of Modernity: Georg Simmel and Max Weber 422 David Frisby 29 Weber and the Southwest German School: The Genesis 434 of the Concept of the Historical Individual Guy Oakes 30 Max Weber and Benedetto Croce 447 Pietro Rossi Contents ix 31 Weber and Freud: Vocation and Self-Acknowledgement 468 Tracy B. Strong 32 Passion as a Mode of Life: Max Weber, the Otto Gross 483 Circle and Eroticism Wolfgang Schwentker 33 Ernst Bloch and Georg Lukacs in Max Weber's Heidelberg 499 Eva Karadi 34 Max Weber, Oswald Spengler and a Biographical Surmise 515 Douglas Webster 35 Karl Jaspers: Thinking with Max Weber in Mind 528 Dieter Henrich Part V Max Weber: the Enduring Contemporary 545 36 Max Weber and the World since 1920 547 Edward Shils 37 Max Weber and Modern Social Science 574 Ralf Dahrendorf Contributors 581 Index 585 Preface The collection of essays presented in this volume originated at an international conference on 'Max Weber and his Contemporaries', held from 20 to 23 September 1984 at the German Historical Institute, London.1 As the Introduc tion describes in more detail, this conference attempted to ascertain Max Weber's intellectual position around the turn of the century vis-a-vis his contemporaries in the social sciences, in history and theology, in philosophy and in the contemporary political arena. Scholars from Great Britain, West Germany, the United States, Canada, Italy, France, Hungary, the Netherlands and Brazil, representing various academic disciplines ranging from history, political science and sociology to theology and economics participated in the conference. Even so, it was not possible to cover equally all aspects of Weber's work and its contemporary ramifications. We are grateful to Professor Dieter Henrich for allowing us to include in this collection a Memorial Lecture on Karl Jaspers, which made it possible to fill what otherwise might have been a glaring gap in this volume. However incomplete this collection may still seem, it presents a fairly com prehensive account of Max Weber and his relationship to various scholarly disciplines in his own time. We hope it will be considered a useful contribution to our understanding of the intellectual history of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and of Max Weber's achievements in particular. Prepar ing the papers for publication, however, was not an easy task, if only because of the considerable problems involved in procuring adequate translations of the papers originally presented in German. Likewise, it was not easy to achieve a fair degree of consistency in rendering the extremely difficult terminology of Weber (and also, of course, of other thinkers) in English. Existing translations were used as far as possible. Sometimes they had to be corrected or amended. It is to be hoped that in due course a new English edition of Weber's writings, based on the Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe currently being prepared by a team of German scholars including the undersigned, will remedy the present unsatis factory state of affairs regarding the texts by Weber available in English. Without the efforts of Dr Angela Davies of the German Historical Institute, who assisted in editing the texts and prepared the index, this volume would probably not have come about. Special thanks go to Dr Sam Whimster, who acted as a collaborative editor on the papers which had to be translated into English. In particular, he checked the texts for terminological consistency and also for stylistic presentation. Thanks are also due to Dr Abraham Anderson of Columbia University, Dr Gangolf Hiibinger and Mr Niall Bond of the University of Freiburg, and to Dr Wolfgang Schwentker of the University of Dusseldorf, who will be editing jointly with the undersigned a parallel German version of this volume (to be published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Gottingen, in the series Publications of the German Historical Institute). Last but not least, the staff of the German Historical Institute should be mentioned. I Cf, the report on this conference by Jiirgen Osterhammel, in Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, London, no. 18 (1985), pp. 11-20.
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