THE ALLURE OF DARK TIMES: MAX WEBER, POLITICS, AND THE CRISIS OF HISTORICISM.
This article argues that realist invocations of Weber rely on an unrealistic reading of Weber's realism. In order to escape the allure of Weber's dramatic posture of crisis, we place his seminal lecture on 'Politics as a Vocation' (1919) in its historical and philosophical context of a revolutionary...
| Publicado en: | History & Theory Vol. 56; no. 2; pp. 197 - 216 |
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