Preface vii
Abbreviations ix

Part One
Max Weber’s Science of Man

I Max Weber’s Science of Man 3
1 Is there a Weberian Anthropology? 10
2 Weber and the Contemporary Sciences of Man 19
i Anthropology 20
ii Psychology 29
iii Characterology 38
3 Weber’s Epistemological Objective: The Empirical Registration of Human ‘Conviction’ 40
4 The Spiritualist Foundation of Max Weber’s ‘Interpretative Sociology’. Ernst Troeltsch, Max Weber and William James’ Varieties of Religious Experience 46
5 The Sociology of Educational Means and Ends 65
6 Charisma and ‘Inner’ Transformation 76

Part Two
The Value Relation and the Power of Judgement

II Max Weber as Teacher 85
1 The Educational Intention 86
2 The Systematic Perspective of the Work 90
3 The Disciplinary Context 92
4 The Meaning of ‘Value Freedom’ for the Communication of Practical Insights 96
5 Max Weber’s Failure 101
III The Pitiless ‘Sobriety of Judgement’: Max Weber between Carl Menger and Gustav von Schmoller. The Academic Politics of Value Freedom 105
1 Between History and ‘Theory’ – Also a Generational Conflict 109
2 The Pedagogic Background to the ‘Postulate’ 117
3 On Stage at the Conferences of Higher Education Teachers 122
4 Academic Scholars or ‘Business Professors’ 134
IV The Meaning of Value Freedom – Impulse and Motive for Max Weber’s ‘Postulate’ 139
1 The Origin of the Debate 140
2 Weber’s Motives 149

Part Three:
The ‘Cultural Problems of Capitalism’

V Outlines for an ‘Intellectual Biography’ of Max Weber 159
1 Talent, Diligence and Curiosity 165
2 The Formation of Sensibility 168
3 Early Reading 174
4 Friedrich Albert Lange 178
5 The Machinery of Modern Capitalism 184
6 A New Beginning and the Fixing of Central Interests 188
7 The ‘Cultural Problems of Capitalism’ and the ‘Major Projects’ 197

Translator’s Appendix 205
Index 217