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Max Weber and the tragedy of politics: Reflections on unintended consequences of action:
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In this article, the authors examine Max Weber's Politics as a Vocation within the broader context of his sociology through an examination of the unintended consequences of action, and present an analysis of Weber's politics as a vocation.Abstract:
The article examines Max Weber’s Politics as a Vocation within the broader context of his sociology through an examination of the unintended consequences of action. This speech, alongside Science a...read more
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For Weber: Essays on the Sociology of Fate
Sam Whimster,Bryan S. Turner +1 more
TL;DR: Weber and Weber as discussed by the authors discuss the relationship between logic and Fate in Weber's Sociology of Law and the career of a concept in Medicine and Religion, and the development of Feudalism and Prebendalism.
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Politik als Beruf (1919)
TL;DR: Auf Anfrage Immanuel Birnbaums, des Vorsitzenden des Munchner Freistudentententischen Bundes, hielt Weber am 7. November 1917 den Vortrag Wissenschaft als Beruf (MWG I/17, 49 ff.).
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Max Weber and Charles Taylor: On normative aspects of a theory of human action
TL;DR: In this article , a supplementary reinterpretation of Max Weber in the light of Charles Taylor's expressivist-hermeneutical theory of human agency is presented, where Weber sets values within a non-naturalist dimension where agents find their bearings and are constituted as such.
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Politics as a Vocation
TL;DR: In this article, all questions that refer to what policy and what content one should give one's political activity must be eliminated, for such questions have nothing to do with the general question of what politics as a vocation means and what it can mean.
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The unanticipated consequences of purposive social action
TL;DR: The problem of unanticipated consequences of purposive social action has been widely recognized and its importance equally appreciated, but no systematic, scientific analysis of it has as yet been effected.
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Science as a Vocation
TL;DR: It is not true that the work of art of a period that has worked out new technical means, or, for instance, the laws of perspective, stands therefore artistically higher than a piece of art devoid of all knowledge of those means and laws as mentioned in this paper.