Introduction to Weber, Ascona and Anarchism

Whimster, Sam

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“…In realtà sapevamo già quasi tutto dallo straordinario numero di biografie di Weber accumulatesi nei decenni (Schwinn 2020: 353-354). Molti di questi contributi, però, sono caratterizzati dal vizio psicologistico di far derivare i tratti dell'opera dalle circostanze della vita (Wallach Bologh 1987;Whimster 1999) e qualcuno rasenta i rischi peggiori della psicobiografia (Mitzman 1970;Radkau 2005;; spesso la "rivelazione" passa oggi per una rivalutazione della biografia di Marianne (1995Marianne ( [1984) e delle sue allusioni allo stato di salute del marito (Meurer 2010; Antonelli 2020; Nocenzi, Deriu 2020), ma mi sento di dire che c'era già tutto ciò che riguarda davvero l'insieme della teoria weberiana nel grande affresco della Zwischenbetrachtung. Come dice Robert Bellah è il testo dei testi, "il testo chiave di tutto il corpus weberiano" (1999: 179 trad.…”

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Cavalli, Weber e la formazione dei sociologi sui testi classici

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2023

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“…Weber was personally acquainted with the anarchist historian Max Nettlau (Dahlmann, 1987) and other anarchists as he sometimes vacationed alongside them in Ascona (see Whimster, 1999), and he was ‘impressed by their refusal to compromise’ (Dahlmann, 1987: 367) and considered them ‘honest and straightforward’ (quoted in Mommsen, 1987: 95). Weber’s attraction to anarchists – while still holding their ideas at arm’s length from his own – illustrates what Mommsen (1987) identifies as Weber’s desire to seek out radical ideas, perhaps as an alter ego to his own.…”

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A Society in Revolt or Under Analysis? Investigating the Dialogue Between 19th-Century Anarchists and Sociologists

Williams

2013

Critical Sociology

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Anarchism has not had a noticeable impact upon sociology. The two traditions diverged in their interest in society and their relationship to it. This paper contrasts the practitioners or thinkers of one tradition against the other. The analysis shows some strong antagonisms, many instances of close analysis and critique of each other’s perspectives, and a number of friendly and supportive relationships between anarchists and sociologists. Anarchists tended to admire the intellectual rigor of sociologists, but thought sociologists were insiders – mere reformers at best, reactionaries at worst – content to study society, but rarely to act for its improvement. Sociologists viewed anarchists with an even wider range of opinion, including considering them principled and admirable revolutionaries, slightly naïve utopians, or criminals and chaos-lovers bent on the destruction of social order. These factors contributed to the exclusion of anarchist ideas and anarchists themselves from the sociological canon.

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“…1E.g. amongst contributions in English, see Hennis, 2000a and 2000b; Scaff, 1989; Whimster 1999. Marianne Weber's biography already conveyed a sense of Weber's passion and sense of honour, of his immense curiosity, of his excessiveness as well, at times, all features which are antithetic to Bourgeois rational asceticism (Weber 1995 (1926)).…”

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Book Review: Extended Review: Max Weber: A Biography

Darmon

2009

The Sociological Review

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For Rüdiger Safranski, philosopher, writer and biographer, interest in writing a biography is kindled if the life and work of the intellectual or artist concerned seems to provide the ground for 'working through' problems. Thus E. T. A. Hoffmann's way of creating a proper space for literature whilst acknowledging the 'fate of his time' (under the hegemony of Napoleon I) as political through and through struck a deep chord with Safranski's own search in the tumultuous 1970s. Reading Joachim Radkau's Max Weber, makes one wonder, however, whether the chord belongs to the subject or to the biographer. Facing the daunting task of putting together the first complete account of Weber's life since Marianne Weber's achievement, almost 80 years before, Radkau, a historian of the environment, and author of The Age of Nervousness (Das Zeitalter der Nervosität: Deutschland zwischen Bismarck und Hitler, 1988), found (to his visible relief) in 'nature' the missing link between Weber's life and work (Radkau, 2008: 132). A 'substratum' of naturalism underpins Weber's theoretical and empirical work, although largely unacknowledged by Weber himself, such is Radkau's thesis. Nature, as the node of Weber's life and work: was that the 'problem' to 'work through'? Or does the 'missing link' turn out to be a steel casing for Weber's spirit?Such are the questions raised for the reader by Joachim Radkau's biography of Max Weber, published in German in 2005 and now available (abridged from the 1008 pages of the German edition) for the English speaking public. The very structure of the book reflects Radkau's starting hypothesis: system-

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Introduction to Weber, Ascona and Anarchism

Cited by 8 publications

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Cavalli, Weber e la formazione dei sociologi sui testi classici

Cavalli, Weber e la formazione dei sociologi sui testi classici

A Society in Revolt or Under Analysis? Investigating the Dialogue Between 19th-Century Anarchists and Sociologists

Book Review: Extended Review: Max Weber: A Biography

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