Introduction
Notes Introduction 1 . H. Stuart Hughes, Consciousness and Society (New York: Vintage, 1961), 17. Hughes attributes the term to A.L. Kroeber. 2 . None of the scholars I will be discussing, especially in the early parts of this work, would have considered himself a “sociologist” during the empire. Most of them, including Weber, thought of themselves as national economists. 3 . Wilhelm Hennis, Max Weber: Essays in Reconstruction , trans. Keith Tribe (London: Allen & Unwin, 1988), 22. More than two decades before Hennis, Friedrich H. Tenbruck had lodged a similar complaint. Tenbruck, “Die Genesis der Methodologie Max Webers,” Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie , 11 (1959), 573–630. 4 . The importance of Fritz K. Ringer’s The Decline of the German Mandarins (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1969) must be acknowledged. 5 . Wolfgang Schluchter, “Max und Alfred Weber—zwei ungleiche Brüder,” 1–7, http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/uni/presse/rc7/5.html (last accessed April 10, 2012). Christian Jansen notes that from early on Alfred was referred to as “mini-Max.” Jansen, “Neues von der deutschen Gelehrtenpolitik,” Neue poli- tische Literatur 51 (2006), 17. 6 . Bernd Widdig, Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany (Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001), 183. 7 . Robert Michels, Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy , trans. Eden and Cedar Paul (New York: Free Press, [1911] 1968), 191. 8 . A ten-volume edition of his collected works (cited here as AWG) appeared from 1997 to 2003. A two-volume biography and a number of other vol- umes on him have been published in the last two decades.
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