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Author Weber, Max, 1864-1920.

Title Max Weber's complete writings on academic and political vocations / edited and with an introduction by John Dreijmanis ; translation by Gordon C. Wells.

Publication Info. New York : Algora Pub., [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 221 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Classics series
Classics series (Algora Publishing)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-213) and indexes.
Summary Annotation This is the first edition in any language of all of Max Weber's writings on academic and political vocations. The translation is new and liberally annotated, including a look at Weber's personality and what it was that made him such a phenomenon. Max Weber made many significant interpretations of both academic and political vocations in his two lectures on Science as a Vocation (Wissenschaft als Beruf, 1917) and Politics as a Vocation (Politik als Beruf) 1919), as well as in a series of newspaper articles including those written between 1908 and 1920. Since these writings are of more than historical interest, there was a need to bring them all together in a single volume. Newly translated and annotated, this collection comprises both lectures plus 32 articles which Weber wrote on academia. Most of these have not been translated before. In the Introduction, Prof. John Dreijmanis relates the academic and political vocations to each other conceptually, showing that there is considerable overlap and some convergence: the need for passion, an inward calling, as well as career insecurity both vocations. Dreijmanis then examines the person of Weber and provides a new view of him, in part through the lens of Carl C. Jung's theory of psychological types as further developed by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). As an extravert with a powerful thinking function and intellect, he was driven to take an interest in events outside himself and to speak his mind. Coming after a long line of introverted German philosophers, he was a phenomenon. The new translations, by Gordon C. Wells, are more faithful to Weber's style of expression, and they correct an accumulation of errors of previous translations in the oft-translated essays on Politics and Science. Contains Glossary, Bibliography, Names Index, Subject Index.
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Language Translated from the German.
Subject Education, Higher -- Philosophy.
Education, Higher -- Philosophy.
Academic freedom.
Academic freedom.
Politics, Practical.
Politics, Practical.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Dreijmanis, John.
Other Form: Print version: Weber, Max, 1864-1920. Max Weber's complete writings on academic and political vocations. New York : Algora Pub., ©2008 9780875865485 0875865488 (DLC) 2007035156 (OCoLC)167508205
ISBN 9780875865508 (electronic book)
087586550X (electronic book)
9780875865485 (trade paper ; alkaline paper)
0875865488 (trade paper ; alkaline paper)
9780875865492 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0875865496 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)