The Young Max Weber and German Social Democracy
The ‘Labour Question’ and the Genesis of Social Theory in Imperial Germany (1884-1899)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19915475 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Victor Strazzeri (0000-0001-7525-3932, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | The Young Max Weber and German Social Democracy (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789004524934 |
| OpenAlex | W4320067052 |
| ISBN | 9789004524934 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The Young Max Weber and German Social Democracy examines the formative years of a classic social thinker once called the ‘bourgeois Marx’ from the standpoint of his relationship to the foremost working-class organization of his time. It argues that Weber’s early engagement with the standpoint of the rural worker — not his later study of the ethics of ascetic Protestant entrepreneurs — first convinced him of the central role of culture in human agency. The crisis of liberalism in a rapidly modernising, conflict-ridden Imperial Germany embarking on colonial expansion emerges in the work as the decisive setting for the genesis of Weberian social thought; the rising labour movement, in turn, as the young Weber’s little-know yet crucial interlocutor
Agency (philosophy) · Asceticism · Bourgeoisie · Capitalism · Democracy · German · Liberalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Protestant work ethic · Protestantism · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Law · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
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| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |