Макс Вебер: вехи интеллектуальной биографии

Социология власти. 2020. Т. 32. № 4. С. 8–44.

Dmitriev T.

The article reviews current historical research on the life and work of Max
Weber. The completion of the Max Weber Gesamtausgabe (Collected Works) by
the Mohr Siebeck publishing house not only made it possible to put a new
textual basis behind the systematization of Weber’s legacy — which is key
for a general theoretical grounding and self-explanation of sociology — but
also elevated historical and biographical studies devoted to Weber. This
has been achieved by introducing many new sources and clarifying old
ones. The article is based on an analysis of Weber’s most recent intellectual
biography published in 2019. It was written by Gangolf Hübinger, a German
academic and a member of the MWG editorial staff since 2004. Hübinger’s
book presents Weber’s life as a convergence of some concentric circles that
revolve around several major themes. Among them are social and cultural
features of “organized modernity” as the turning point era in the history of
the West; the formative years of Weber as an individual and a scholar; the
intellectualization of modernity and its consequences; Weber’s invention
of a new academic discipline, political sociology; the intellectual networks
with which Weber was involved as a scholar and politician. An important
advantage of this new biography is that it provides a detailed description
of the current study of Weber’s theoretical legacy and the prospects for
the development of a “Weberian paradigm” in today’s social science and
humanities.

Keywords: интеллектуалы, политическая социология, political sociology, intellectuals and the First World War, "organized modernity", democratization of mass politics, rationalization and intellectualization of the world, "Weberian paradigm", организованный модерн, демократизация массовой политики, рационализация и интеллектуализация современного мира, "парадигма Вебера"