Guenther Roth

Today, Max Weber appears to many younger academic rebels as the patron sait of "value neutral" social science, yet he too engaged in a furious generational rebellion of his own, and in the end chose science as a vocation. These essays deal with Weber's substantive and methodological contribution and the relation of his life to his place in intellectual and political history. They examine the influences on Weber, as well as his similarities to and differences from Marx, Burckhardt, Nietzsche, Durkheim, and others. The authors also give attention to the ideological background of the modern attack upon the university, and to comparative study of values, authority, and legitimation. Bendix's Presidential Address to the 1970 meeting of the American Sociological Association is included. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.

Today, Max Weber appears to many younger academic rebels as the patron sait of "value neutral" social science, yet he too engaged in a furious generational rebellion of his own, and in the end chose science as a vocation. These essays deal with Weber's substantive and methodological contribution and the relation of his life to his place in intellectual and political history. They examine the influences on Weber, as well as his similarities to and differences from Marx, Burckhardt, Nietzsche, Durkheim, and others. The authors also give attention to the ideological background of the modern attack upon the university, and to comparative study of values, authority, and legitimation. Bendix's Presidential Address to the 1970 meeting of the American Sociological Association is included. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.

Guenther Roths vielfältige Arbeiten sind mit dem Werk Max Webers untrennbar verknüpft. Seine textgenaue und präzise Übersetzung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft ins Englische eröffnete ganz neue Chancen zu einer systematischen Auseinandersetzung mit Weber in der angelsächsischen Welt, seine detaillierten und historisch genauen Untersuchungen der Kontexte und der familiären Konstellationen, in die Weber eingebunden war, ermöglichen ein zeit- und milieusensibles Verständnis seiner Biographie und seine differenzierten makrosoziologischen Untersuchungen zu Herrschaft, Politik und Kapitalismus machen das analytische Potential dieses Ansatzes deutlich.Der vorliegende Band versammelt zentrale Texte von Guenther Roth. Sie sind soziologiegeschichtlich bedeutsam und für aktuelle Problemstellungen aufschlussreich. Sie zeigen, wie ein Anschluss an Webers Werk in historischer und systematischer Hinsicht neue Perspektivieren eröffnen kann und machen die Fruchtbarkeit des Weber Paradigmas für aktuelle Fragestellungen deutlich.

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Die jetzige Periode des globalen Kapitalismus hatte ihren Vorläufer im 19. Jahrhundert. Max Weber (1864-1920), weltberühmt als Theoretiker des okzidentalen Kapitalismus und Rationalismus, entstammte einem Kreis reicher deutsch-englischer Handelsfamilien.Guenther Roth verfolgt eine Geschichte von vier Generationen im Spannungsfeld zwischen Kosmopolitismus und Nationalismus, in der Weber selbst als 'kosmopolitischer Nationalist' mit realistischem weltwirtschaftlichem Verständnis erscheint. Die beiden Leitthemen sind verbunden mit der Problematik von jüdischer Integration und Antisemitismus, weiblicher Emanzipation und Männerherrschaft, Migration und Exil, und nicht zuletzt religiöser und weltlicher Sinngebung. Anhand von neuen Quellen behandelt Guenther Roth sowohl die internationalen Wirtschaftskarrieren der Souchay-, Benecke- und Weberfamilien wie die nationalen politischen Karrieren von Männern wie dem Frankfurter Senator Eduard Souchay, dem Historiker Hermann Baumgarten, dem Theologen Otto Baumgarten und dem Berliner Stadtrat und Parlamentarier Max Weber senior. Gleiches Gewicht ist den Frauen gewidmet, im Beschluß Marianne Weber und ihrem Kreis in der Frauenbewegung.