This book assesses Max Weber, a leading modern thinker and social scientist, comparing his work and contribution to such diverse fields as epistemology, political sociology, sociology of religion and economic history with that of his contemporaries.

Wolfgang J. Mommsen, Jürgen Osterhammel

Chapter 1 Introduction, Wolfgang J. Mommsen; Part 1 Max Weber and the Social Sciences at the Turn of the Century; Chapter 2 A Science of Man: Max Weber and the Political Economy of the German Historical School, Wilhelm Hennis; Chapter 3 Gustav Schmoller and Max Weber, Manfred Schön; Chapter 4 Max Weber and the Younger Generation in the Verein für Sozialpolitik, Dieter Krüger; Chapter 5 Max and Alfred Weber and the Verein für Sozialpolitik, Eberhard Demm; Chapter 6 Personal Conflict and Ideological Options in Sombart and Weber, Arthur Mitzman; Chapter 7 Varieties of Social Economics: Joseph A. Schumpeter and Max Weber, Jürgen Osterhammel; Chapter 8 Robert Michels and Max Weber: Moral Conviction Versus the Politics of Responsibility, Wolfgang J. Mommsen; Chapter 9 Mosca, Pareto and Weber: A Historical Comparison, David Beetham; Chapter 10 Georges Sorel and Max Weber, J. G. Merquior; Chapter 11 Mill and Weber on History, Freedom and Reason, Alan Ryan; Chapter 12 Weber and Durkheim: Coincidence and Divergence, Anthony Giddens; Part 2 Max Weber's Relation to the Theologians and Historians; Chapter 13 Max Weber and the Evangelical-Social Congress, Rita Aldenhoff; Chapter 14 Max Weber and the Lutherans, W. R. Ward; Chapter 15 Friendship Between Experts: Notes on Weber and Troeltsch, Friedrich Wilhelm Graf; Chapter 16 Max Weber and Eduard Meyer, Friedrich H. Tenbruck; Chapter 17 Karl Lamprecht and Max Weber: Historical Sociology within the Confines of a Historians' Controversy, Sam Whimster; Chapter 18 Otto Hintze and Max Weber: Attempts at a Comparison, Jürgen Kocka; Part 3 The Realm of Politics; Chapter 19 Friedrich Naumann and Max Weber: Aspects of a Political Part nership, Peter Theiner; Chapter 20 Max Weber and Walther Rathenau, Ernst Schulin; Chapter 21 Gustav Stresemann and Max Weber: Politics and Scholarship, Gangolf Hübinger; Chapter 22 Dietrich Schäfer and Max Weber, Roger Chickering; Chapter 23 Eduard Bernstein and Max Weber, John Breuilly; Chapter 24 Max Weber, Karl Kautsky and German Social Democracy, Dick Geary; Chapter 25 Max Weber's Relation to Anarchism and Anarchists: The Case of Ernst Toller, Dittmar Dahlmann; Chapter 26 Max Weber and Antonio Gramsci, Carl Levy, James Joll; Part 4 Max Weber and Philosophical Thought; Chapter 27 Weber and Nietzsche: Questioning the Liberation of Social Science from Historicism, Robert Eden; Chapter 28 The Ambiguity of Modernity: Georg Simmel and Max Weber, David Frisby; Chapter 29 Weber and the Southwest German School: The Genesis of the Concept of the Historical Individual, Guy Oakes; Chapter 30 Max Weber and Benedetto Croce, Pietro Rossi; Chapter 31 Weber and Freud: Vocation and Self-Acknowledgement, Tracy B. Strong; Chapter 32 Passion as a Mode of Life: Max Weber, the Otto Gross Circle and Eroticism, Wolfgang Schwentker; Chapter 33 Ernst Bloch and Georg Lukács in Max Weber's Heidelberg, Eva Karádi; Chapter 34 Max Weber, Oswald Spengler, and a Biographical Surmise, Douglas Webster; Chapter 35 Karl Jaspers: Thinking with Max Weber in Mind, Dieter Henrich; Part 5 Max Weber: the Enduring Contemporary; Chapter 36 Max Weber and the World Since 1920, Edward Shils; Chapter 37 Max Weber and Modern Social Science, Ralf Dahrendorf;