The Unknown Max Weber

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Paul Honigsheim is unique. One of the select few who regularly participated in the Weber-Kreis in Heidelberg during the 1910s, Honigsheim's special place within Weber's world adds a degree of credibility to his writings matched by few others. In the late 1940s Honigsheim published four essays from what might be called Weber's "lost decade," the period during which Weber established his reputation in Germany as the most versatile and brilliant of the younger social scientists. Together in one volume for the first ...
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Paul Honigsheim is unique. One of the select few who regularly participated in the Weber-Kreis in Heidelberg during the 1910s, Honigsheim's special place within Weber's world adds a degree of credibility to his writings matched by few others. In the late 1940s Honigsheim published four essays from what might be called Weber's "lost decade," the period during which Weber established his reputation in Germany as the most versatile and brilliant of the younger social scientists. Together in one volume for the first time, these essays reveal portions of Weber's work previously unavailable in English.

In the opening essay, "Max Weber as Rural Sociologist," Honigsheim treats Weber's essays on Russia, Poland, and other works in economic history. He offers a point of departure for those wishing to probe Weber's celebrated and misconstrued distaste for traditional Slavic social structure. In "Max Weber as Applied Anthropologist," Honigsheim examines Weber's commitment to the study of race, ethnicity, and nationalism as mediated by ethnic attachments, social policy formation, handicraft economies, and what he calls "Ethno-Politics." "Max Weber as Historian of Agriculture and Rural Life" is a masterpiece of exegesis and comparative inquiry. The final essay, "Max Weber: His Religious and Ethical Background and Development," acts as a minor corrective and addendum to Marianne Weber's biography. The book concludes with Honigsheim's reminiscences of the Weber circle.

Interest in the work and person of Max Weber grows with each year. From his writings the reader may glean the finer shades and contours of thoughts that arise from private exchanges between Honigsheim and Max Weber. This volume will interest a broad spectrum of social scientists.

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“Paul Honigsheim (1885-1963) is perhaps best known in the US for his contributions to the sociology of music. However, this volume of papers presents another side of the author—as student, colleague, and friend of German sociologist Max Weber (1864-1920)… Sica sheds light on Weber as scientist and human being and on the first period of Weber's creativity, which Sica regards as Weber's "lost decade" because "only four essays have entered English language scholarship literally leaving 95 percent ... lost to our knowledge. . .." This work not only enriches our knowledge of Weber the scholar and further illumines his productivity, but brings readers into contact with a promethean figure in a way that might have been otherwise impossible. This volume is required reading, deserving of the widest possible dissemination, and is highly recommended for all libraries.” —L. Braude, Choice “[A]ll of Honigsheim’s essays provide useful resources for contextualist historians of ideas because they situate Weber, both intellectually and personally, in terms of swarming and darting allusions to a host of mainly German scholars.” —Ira J. Cohen, Contemporary Sociology
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Editor Alan Sica (sociology, Pennsylvania State U.) selects eight original articles which focus on Weber, written by Paul Honigsheim, a friend of Weber's and an important commentator on his work. Includes the draft of an article titled , written shortly before Honigsheim's death. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780765809537
  • Publisher: Transaction Publishers
  • Publication date: 4/18/2003
  • Pages: 318
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.67 (d)

Meet the Author

Paul Honigsheim studied at the Universities of Bonn, Berlin, and Heidelberg. An emigre from Germany, he joined the staff of the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University in 1938. He died in 1963.

Alan Sica is professor of sociology and director of the Social Thought Program at Pennsylvania State University. Editor of the ASA Journal Sociological Theory from 1989 to 1994 and now of Contemporary Sociology, his books include Weber, Irrationality, and Social Order; Ideologies and the Corruption of Thought; Max Weber and the New Century; and Max Weber: A Comprehensive Bibliography. Alan Sica is professor of sociology and director of the Social Thought Program at Pennsylvania State University. Editor of the ASA Journal Sociological Theory from 1989 to 1994 and now of Contemporary Sociology, his books include Weber, Irrationality, and Social Order; Ideologies and the Corruption of Thought; Max Weber and the New Century; and Max Weber: A Comprehensive Bibliography.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii
Introduction: Paul Honigsheim and Max Weber's Lost Decade ix
Foreword to On Max Weber (1962) xxiii
Part 1 The Unknown Marx Weber
1. Max Weber as Rural Sociologist 3
2. Max Weber as Applied Anthropologist 17
3. Max Weber as Historian of Agricultural and Rural Life 33
4. Max Weber: His Religious and Ethical Background and Development 99
Part 2 On Max Weber
5. Memories of Max Weber 123
6. Max Weber 239
7. Max Weber as Sociologist 251
8. Max Weber in American Intellectual Life 261
Name Index 277
Subject Index 285
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