Contents

Preface page xi Abbreviations xiii 1 Introduction 1 Wolfgang J. Mommsen

Part I 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 Schön 4 Max Weber and the 'Younger' Generation in the Verein für 71 Sozialpolitik Dieter Krüger 5 Max and Alfred Weber in the Verein für 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 Jürgen 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, 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 Aldenhoff viii. Max Weber and his Contemporaries 14 Max Weber and the Lutherans W. R. Ward 15 Friendship between Experts: Notes on Weber and Troeltsch Friedrich Wilhelm Graf 16 Max Weber and Eduard Meyer Friedrich H. Tenbruck 17 Karl Lamprecht and Max Weber: Historical Sociology within fS^CcTnSnes of a Historians' Controversy Sam Whimster 18 Otto Hintze and Max Weber: Attempts at a Comparison Jürgen Kocka

Part III The Realm of Politics 19 Friedrich Naumann and Max Weber: Aspects of a Political Partnership Peter Theiner 20 Max Weber and Walther Rathenau Ernst Schulin 21 and Max Weber: Politics and Scholarship Gangolf Hübinger 22 Dietrich Schäfer and Max Weber Roger Chickering 23 Eduard Bernstein and Max Weber John Breuilly 24 Max Weber, Karl Kautsky and German Social Democracy Dick Geary 25 Max Weber's Relation to Anarchism and Anarchists: The Case of Ernst Toller Dittmar Dahlmann 26 Max Weber and Antonio Gramsci Carl Levy

Part IV Max Weber and Philosophical Thought 27 Weber and Nietzsche: Questioning the Liberation of Social Science from Historicism Robert Eden 28 The Ambiguity of Modernity: Georg Simmel and Max Weber David Frisby 29 Weber and the Southwest German School: The Genesis of the Concept of the Historical Individual Guy Oakes 30 Max Weber and Pietro Rossi 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 Lukács in Max Weber's Heidelberg 499 Éva Karádi 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