| Description |
xxi, 498 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Young Weber's Political Development -- 2. Patriarchalism, Capitalism, and the Nation State -- 3. A Powerful Nation State as Weber's Political Ideal -- The Freiburg Inaugural Address: The Nation as the Supreme Value of Economic Policy -- The Relentlessness of the Power Struggle; The Diabolical Character of Power -- The Concept of Nation in Weber's Thought -- Nation, Power, and Culture: Problematics of Weber's Political Value System -- 4. National Imperialism as the Future Task of German Policy -- A World Policy as a Means of Defending Germany's International Standing -- German World Policy and the Nation's Political Maturity -- 5. Weber and Germany's Internal Political Evolution before the First World War -- The Great Alternative: Industrialism or Feudalism -- The Social Unification of the Nation -- The Call for a National Party of Bourgeois Liberty -- 6. Foreign Policy and the Constitutional System -- Bismarck, William II, and the Failure of German Imperialism -- The Political Leadership Vacuum after Bismarck's Fall, and the Rule of Bureaucracy -- Parliamentarization as a Means of Overcoming the Reich Leadership Crisis -- 7. The World War as a Proving Ground for the German Reich as a Great Power -- War Aims and Germany's International Future -- Poland and Central Europe: Attempts at Political Action -- "U-Boat Demagoguery" and Bethmann Hollweg's Chancellorship -- The Need for Constitutional Reforms to Strengthen the Domestic Front -- From Brest-Litovsk to Catastrophe -- 8. Collapse and a New Beginning -- Defeat and Revolution: Weber's Work for the German Democratic Party -- The Treaty of Versailles and Germany's Future in the World -- 9. Weber and the Making of the Weimar Constitution -- Weber's November 1919 Articles on Germany's Future Governmental System -- The Republican Constitution and German Public Opinion -- The Constitution Deliberations in the Reichsamt des Innern, 9-12 December 1918, and Hugo Preuss's Original Draft of the Constitution -- The Fate of Weber's Constitutional Proposals in the Ensuing Legislative Process -- The Aftereffects of Weber's Theory of the Reich president as Political Leader -- 10. From a Liberal Constitutional State to Plebiscitary Leadership Democracy -- Afterword: Toward a New Interpretation of Max Weber -- Digression: On the Question of the Relationship between the Formal Legality and the Rational Legitimacy of Rule in Max Weber's Works. |
| Note |
Rev. translation of: Max Weber und die deutsche Politik, 1890-1920. 2. überarbeitete und erw. Aufl. 1974. |
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Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [455]-484. |
| Subject |
Weber, Max, 1864-1920.
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Germany -- Politics and government -- 1871-1918.
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| Added Title |
Max Weber und die deutsche Politik, 1890-1920. English
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| ISBN |
0226533972 paperback |
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