After the talk – Weber and methodology
13/12/2021
On November 19th we had our first online event on the topic “Weber and methodology”, with guests Erik Jansson Boström and Hans Henrik Bruun. On this occasion, we want to share some thoughts that came up among our colleagues during and after that interesting afternoon.
The discussion started here, on our website, with the blog post “How (and why) we should read Max Weber’s methodological texts today?” written by Erik Jansson Boström. In this text, Erik discussed the subject of Weber’s methodological writings, continuing some of the topics present in his thesis dissertation.
For this reason, the event began with the response of Hans Henrik Bruun, who kindly shared with us his considerations on reading Erik’s text. These are the main points that Hans Henrik took up to start the discussion:
“This sort of exercise is never very fair”
Besides, and in relation to the third point of Hans Henrik Bruun, Edith Hanke shared with us several passages of Max Weber’s early methodological writings (including Weber’s so-called ‘Nervi notes’ in their entirety) to keep on thinking about this concept of “Färbung”:
Färbung/Farbe (Colour and colouring) and Weber’s ‘Nervi Notes’
Towards the end of the talk, Sam Whimster made a contribution about Max Weber’s 1903-05 letter. As time was short, he kindly shared with us a few notes on the subject:
Erik addressed Hans Henrik’s main points and concluded with some interesting questions for our dear colleagues:
These contributions were part of our first online event “Weber and methodology” which is already uploaded to our Facebook Fanpage and Youtube Channel. We thank our guests and all the participants who shared their ideas. A special thanks, too, to Edith Hanke and Sam Whimster who took the time to write and share this additional material with us.