SOC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Craig Calhoun, Verstehen, Arthur Schopenhauer
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Died of pneumonia at age 56 in 1920. At 4 years old, he became seriously ill with meningitis. And though he eventually recovered, throughout the rest of his life, he suffered the physical and emotional aftereffects of the disease, most apparently anxiety and nervous tension. From an early age, books were central in weber"s life. He read whatever he could get his hands on, including kant, machiavelli, spinoza, goethe, and. Schopenhauer, and he wrote two historical essays before his fourteenth birthday. The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism (1904) The distribution of power within the political community: class, status, party (1925) Weber"s work encompasses a wide scope of substantive interests. Authors divide the discussion in this section into two major parts: (1) weber"s view of the science of sociology (2) his engagement with the work or karl marx and friedrich nietzsche.
