Max Weber and the Culture of Anarchy

This is a specially commissioned set of essays on the themes of Max Weber, culture, anarchy and politics. It presents the first complete publication (in both English and German) of a series of letters written by Max Weber in 1913 and 1914 during his stays

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Also by Sam Whimster ALDGATE PAPERS IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL THEORY (editor) THE ESSENTIAL WEBER

Max Weber and the Culture of Anarchy Edited by

Sam Whimster

Reader in Sociology London Guildhall University London

First published in Great Britain 1999 by

MACMILLAN PRESS LTD

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 978-0-333-73021-8

ISBN 978-1-349-27030-9 (eBook)

DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-27030-9

First published in the United States of America 1999 by

ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, INC.,

Scholarly and Reference Division, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010

ISBN 978-0-312-21302-2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Max Weber and the culture of anarchy I edited by Sam Whimster. p. cm. Includes letters in German. Includes bibliographical References and index. ISBN 978-0-312-21302-2 (cloth) l. Weber, Max, 1864-1920--Views on anarchism. 2. Anarchism-History. 3. Political culture. I. Whimster, Sam, 1947HX828.M34 1998 320.5'7'095-dc21 97-42334 CIP Selection and editorial matter © Sam Whimster 1999 Text © Macmillan Press Ltd 1999 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London WIP 9HE. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources.

Contents List of Plates

vii

Preface

viii

Notes on the Contributors

x

Editions and Abbreviations of Weber Texts Introduction to Weber, Ascona and Anarchism Sam Whimster

2 Letters from Ascona 3

xii

1

Max Weber

41

Weber and Lawrence and Anarchism Martin Green

72

4 Max Weber, Anarchism and Libertarian Culture: Personality and Power Politics Carl Levy

5

83

Max Weber: a German Intellectual and the Question of War Guilt after the Great War Karl-Ludwig Ay

6 Sexual Revolution and Anarchism: Erich Miihsam Ulrich Linse

7 Max Weber, Leo Tolstoy and the Mountain of Truth 8

110

129

Edith Hanke

144

Weber and Dostoyevsky on Church, Sect and Democracy Charles Turner

162

9 The 'Science of Reality' of Music History: on the Historical Background to MaxWeber's Study of Music Christoph Braun

v

176

Contents

vi 10 11

Love and Death. Weber, Wagner and Max Klinger David Chalcraft

196

Max Weber and German Expressionism Mary Shields

214

Index

232

List of Plates All plates are taken from Graphic Wor