Marx_Weber

Marx Weber Review From Marx Weber: essays in sociology, ‘politics as a vocation’ (396-450) Author Marx Weber, Hans h Gert (Originally a speech at Munich University, 1918, originally published in 1919.) The article I have chosen to review is one of the public lectures Weber gave in 1918, just after Germany had been defeated in World War 1. The lecture is both interesting but also frustrating, it is challenging because of the range of ideas used and at times, I often found the reading of the lecture hard not to put down, Max Weber did not make it easy for his readers. However all that a side after a few more reads I eventually grasped his ideas, which could be open to great interpretations. Many would argue that Weber’s political insights during his lifetime is an outdated text as he relied perhaps too much on Roberts Michel’s study of the German social democrats. I guess it’s my turn to decide if this is the case, is there still any relevance of his work to today’s contemporary society through this review. ‘Politics as a Vocation’ is a pretty wide ranging essay – He provides the reader with the working mechanisms of politics; he talks about political journalism and politics, political, violence, weber, work, weber’s, thought, means, lecture, about, vocation’, understanding, questions, politicians, personal, however, fact, even, different, concludes, comes, because, world, turn, times, thus, through, systems, state, social, role, review