Max Weber and the Culture of Anarchy

This is a specially commissioned set of essays on the themes of Max Weber, culture, anarchy and politics. It presents the first complete publication (in both English and German) of a series of letters written by Max Weber in 1913 and 1914 during his stays at the anarchist settlement of Ascona. The letters show Weber debating with the issues of free love, eroticism, patriarchy, anarchism, terrorism, pacifism, political and personal convictions and power. These themes are taken up by the contributors in a wider discussion of the relation of culture and politics.

KARL-LUDWIG AY Redakteur, Max Weber Gesamtausgabe CHRISTOPH BRAUN Researcher, University of Freiburg im Breisgau DAVID CHALCROFT Head of Sociology, University of Derby MARTIN GREEN Research Professor, Centre for Advanced Study in the Behavioural Sciences, University of Stanford EDITH HANKE Redakteurin, Max Weber Gesamtausgabe CARL LEVY Historian, Goldsmith's College, London ULRICH LINSE Professor of Modern History, Technische Hochschule, Munich MARY SHIELDS Lecturer in Sociology and German, Oxford Brookes University CHRISTOPHER STANLEY Barrister and Quintin Hogg Fellow in Law and Social Theory, University of Westminster CHARLES TURNER Lecturer in Sociology, University of Warwick