Weber & Stock Exchange (Boerse/Bourse)

Weber & Stock Exchange (Boerse/Bourse) by Sam Whimster The fundamental contradiction driving the Bourse inquiry and the controversy over the bourse was the social-political need to protect the public and the private investor (almost 2 million of them) and the aim of ensuring the functional capability of the economy. A liberal, open trading economy had … Leer más

Max Weber and Walter Benjamin

In his critique of modernity, Walter Benjamin had many interlocutors. One of them was Max Weber. In Benjamin’s text Capitalism as Religion written in 1921, he referenced the thesis that Weber developed in 1904 and 1905 in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. He argued that if Weber had demonstrated that capitalism was “a formation conditioned by religion» (2002, p. 288), he intended to understand capitalism “as a religion” .

Value Polytheism and the Pandemic

In what follows, I will try to briefly sketch out a possible direction for the analysis of some crucial social and political aspects of the coronavirus pandemic. It seems to me that this direction – Weberian in its inspiration, to the extent that it focuses on the various ever-conflicting values which inspire social action – can be proven fruitful and help us reach at a better understanding of this recent momentous phenomenon.

Interview with Stephen Turner: Part IV

Interview with Stephen Turner: Part IV Stephen P. Turner (University of South Florida) is a Weber scholar and social theorist. He is also a member of the so-called “disobedient generation,” which left graduated programs and incorporated to US faculties in the years after the 1968 student movement. Departing from his own personal experience, in this interview … Leer más

Interview with Stephen Turner: Part III

Part III: History of Science, Career Strategies, and Weber and Schmitt
This interview was conducted in Berlin on the 10th of July 2019 by Álvaro Morcillo. The interview was recorded and subsequently transcribed.

Interview with Stephen Turner: Part II

Part II: Historical Sociology in the United States
This interview was conducted in Berlin on the 10th of July 2019 by Álvaro Morcillo. The interview was recorded and subsequently transcribed.