Max Weber's Complete Writings on Academic and Political Vocations

Max Weber's Complete Writings on Academic and Political Vocations (2008)

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Introduction 1

Weber’s Personality Type 1

Weber’s Illness 9

Weber’s Two Vocations 13

Science as a Vocation 17

Articles on Academia 21

Politics as a Vocation 22

The Present and Earlier Translations 23

Earlier Translations in Chronological Order 23

Science as a Vocation 25

Articles on Academia 53

1. The Bernhard Case 53

2. [Unsigned] 58

3. Message of Congratulations to Gustav Schmoller on his Seventieth Birthday (24 June, 1908) 58

4. The “Bernhard Case” and Professor Delbrück 59

5. The Alleged “Academic Freedom” at German Universities 64

6. Second German Conference of Teachers in Institutions of Higher Education 68

7. Social Democrats in Academic Teaching Positions 68

8. Academic Freedom in the Universities 69

9. Transactions of the Third German Conference of Teachers in Institutions of  Higher Education 75

10. The Conference of Teachers in Institutions of Higher Education 77

Max Weber’s Complete Writings on Academic and Political Vocations

11. Professor Ehrenberg 78

12. Transactions of the First German Conference of Sociologists 80

13. The German Sociological Society 98

14. Challenge to Duel at the University of Heidelberg 103

15. On the Affair of Dr. Ruge — Professor Weber 104

16. An Opinion on the University Question 105

17. American and German Universities: How They Differ 108

18. German Conference of Teachers in Institutions of Higher Education 116

19. Professor Max Weber (Heidelberg) on his Speech at the German Higher

Education Conference in Dresden 117

20. Max Weber on the “Althoff System” 122

21. The Schools of Commerce: A Reply by Professor Max Weber 125

22. The Prussian Educational Administration and Prof. Max Weber (Heidelberg) 129

23. Max Weber and the Althoff System 131

24. Professor Weber on the Althoff System 133

25. Max Weber, Statement (Memorandum to the Schools of Commerce) 136

26. Once Again Weber — Althoff 143

27. Once More the Statements by Professor Dr. Max Weber (Heidelberg) 146

28. Report on the Activities of the German Sociological Society for the Last Two Years 147

29. A Catholic University in Salzburg 150

30. Declaration of Withdrawal from the Allemannia Fraternity 151

31. Professor Max Weber and the Fraternity Students 152

32. The Demonstrations at the University 153

Politics as a Vocation 155

Glossary 209

Bibliography 211

Index of Subjects 215

Index of Names 229