'Methodological Pestilence': Max Weber's Devastating Critique of Stammler
2014; Volume: 14; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/max.2014.a808693
ISSN2056-4074
Autores Tópico(s)Political Philosophy and Ethics
ResumoMax Weber had a reputation of being highly critical of other scholars, but the one who was the continuing object of Weber's scathing attacks was Rudolf Stammler. Not only was Weber's tone so derogatory, but this line of attack continued for more than a decade and a half. Weber had appreciated the first edition of Stammler's Wirtschaft und Recht, but he despised the second edition. In this paper I try to discover the sources of Weber's contempt for Stammler and to explain why Weber continued to attack him in print and in speeches. While there may have been some personal envy involved, Weber made it clear that he thought that Stammler's book was seductive in its apparent simplicity but that it was simply a conceptual disaster. Thus, Weber referred to it as 'methodological pestilence'.
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