Max Weber: A BiographyISBN: 978-0-7456-4147-8
Hardcover
700 pages
March 2009, Polity
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Acknowledgements xii
Preface to the English Edition xiii
Abbreviations xviii
At the Den of the Sick Lion 1
Part I The Violation of Nature
1 Great Mother and Harsh Nature: A Precocious Youth on the Margins of Berlin 7
2 Max and Minimax: Blood Brothers and Drinking Companions – Surly Fraternity as a Primary Social Experience 25
3 From Father’s Boy to Mother’s Boy: A Comradely Marriage and the Day of Judgement for the Father 39
4 Antaeus, Antiquity and Agrarians: The Unshackling of Creativity through the Earthing of Culture 70
5 Eruptions from the Ice: Creativity as Natural Catastrophe 96
6 A ‘Gospel of Struggle’ and Old German Corpulence: From Lifestyle Crisis through Creativity Crisis to Existential Crisis 117
Part II Nature’s Revenge
7 The Demons: The Wildness of Nature and the Riddle of Sexuality 145
8 ‘A Sort of Spiritualistic Construction of the Modern Economy’: The Protestant Ethic and the Vain Quest for Redemption through the Spirit 179
9 South – North – West – East: Changing Attempts at Spiritual Conquest of the World 208
10 From the ‘Essay of Sighs’ to ‘Psychophysics’: the Seven-Year Fight with Naturalism against Naturalism 250
11 From the Eranos Circle to the ‘Erotic Movement’: New Roots and New Milieux 275
12 Max Weber’s Love–Hate for the Germans 316
Part III Salvation and Illumination
13 Value-Free Science, Love and Music 345
14 Charisma 390
15 The Naturalness of Community – The Disguised Naturalism in Economy and Society 405
16 From Deborah’s Song of Triumph to the ‘Titans of the Holy Curse’: Pacifist Herdsmen, Prophets and Pariahs – the Israelites 427
17 World War and Flight from the World 450
18 Great Speeches, the Great Love and Death 481
19 Epilogue: Powerplay and the Wrangling over Max Weber’s Spirit 551
Notes 572
Index 667