From ‘One-Man Scientific Machine’ to Public Intellectual: Two New Biographies of Max Weber A Review Essay

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-129
Author(s):  
A. Hess
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Public Intellectual

Review Essay: The Public Intellectual and the Role(s) of Criticism

2006 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 310-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymie E. McKerrow ◽  
Jeffrey St. John
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
The Public

scholarly journals Public engagement and the influence imperative

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip N. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Public Engagement ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Public Sociology ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Institutional Response ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Advice Books

A review essay discussing three advice books for social scientists. Sociologists, in responding to the imperative to make their work more influential, must go beyond doing “public sociology” to embrace doing sociology “in public” (Healy 2017). Rather than using public engagement primarily for publicity – to make our research matter – we should use engagement to help us do research that matters in the first place. Next, I caution that the drive to be professionally rewarded for public intellectualism is fraught with conflicts that may be irreconcilable. To be a public intellectual today requires being both public in one’s intellectual life and intellectual in one’s public life, and for academics in the era of the “market university” (Berman 2011), trying to get paid for that leads to a neoliberal trap. Finally, I argue for a move beyond personal strategies toward the development of the open scholarship as an institutional response that ultimately may be responsible for sociology’s survival.

scholarly journals Max Weber and political theology of Friedrich Naumann

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 657-669
Author(s):  
O. V. Kildyushov
Keyword(s):  
Max Weber ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Political Leader ◽  
German Empire ◽  
Social Activists ◽  
Western Modernity ◽  
The Social ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Modern Era

In the Weberian literature, it has been repeatedly noted that there is no serious theological interest in the most important provisions of the sociology of religion by Max Weber. This seems paradoxical given the religious-theological context for the development of Webers intellectual project of the social-theoretical hermeneutics of Western modernity. In the first part of the article, the author reconstructs the family and friends religious constellation which determined Webers understanding of the existential significance of religious meanings for certain groups of the modern era. The author mentions Webers close ties with a number of leading theologians of Germany in the late 19th - early 20th centuries, which influenced the heuristics of his writings. The second part of the article focuses on the multifaceted figure of Friedrich Naumann, a public intellectual, who was a Protestant pastor and a reactionary-conservative theologian and became a spiritual-political leader of the German left liberals. The author shows the initial ambivalence of the political-religious situation in the German Empire in the 1880s-1890s, in which Naumann tried to combine Christianity and socialism, and provides a brief overview of the young theologian and social activists gradual turning into a prominent figure of the German journalism and politics. In the third part of the article, the author describes the meeting of two thinkers as fateful for both Weber and Naumann, and emphasizes a radical turn in the worldview of the famous religious theorist and practitioner, who under the powerful influence of Webers personality and argumentation gave up both many previous ideas and pastors office. In conclusion, the author identifies the paradigmatic nature of Naumans ideological-political evolution as typical for a significant part of German intellectuals at the beginning of the 20th century, and considers Naumanns Hegelian acceptance of the modern nation-state as the highest value (following Weber) as a self-fulfilling diagnosis for the crisis modernity on the eve of the First World War catastrophe.

Review essay / disgust, dignity, and a public intellectual

2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-57
Author(s):  
Judith André
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Public Intellectual

Review essay: Putting Max Weber to use

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Michael Rosenberg
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Max Weber

Review Essay — Journalism: Print, Politics and Popular Culture

2001 ◽  
Vol 99 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-76
Author(s):  
Craig McGregor
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Public Intellectual

Craig McGregor reviews Ann Curthoys' and Julianne Schultz's edited collection, Journalism: Print, Politics and Popular Culture, and reflects more broadly on the role of ideas in journalism and on his own career as a public intellectual.

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