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 ...

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?

Max Weber was the kind of genius we don’t seem to encounter anymore. Trained in law, he taught economics and helped invent sociology while dabbling in philosophy, history, and the study of art, as ...

In early 1919, Germany risked becoming a failed state. Total war had morphed into a civil war that pitted revolutionaries against reactionaries, internationalists against nationalists, and civilians ...

Chad Wellmon is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Virginia. This is a revised version of the Hansford M. Epes Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities he delivered last month ...

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 ...