Max Weber and the Culture of Anarchy [Paperback]

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.List of Plates Preface Notes on the Contributors Editions and Abbreviations of Weber Texts Introduction to Weber, Ascona and Anarchism; S. Whimster Letters from Ascona; M. Weber Weber and Lawrence and Anarchism; M.Green Max Weber, Anarchism and Libertarian Culture: Personality and Power Politics; C. Levy Max Weber: a German Intellectual and the Question of War Guilt; K-L. Ay Sexual Revolution and Anarchism: Erich Muhsam; U.Linse Weber's Out-Law: Otto Gross, Anarchy and Dada; C.Stanley Max Weber, Leo Tolstoy and the Mountain of Truth; E.Hanke Weber and Dostoyevsky on Church, Sect and Democracy; C.Turner The Musico-historical Science of Reality: the Place of Music in Weber's Work; C.Braun Love and Death: Weber, Wagner and Max Klinger; D.Chalcroft Max Weber and German Expressionism; M.Shields IndexKARL-LUDWIG AY Redakteur, Max Weber GesamtausgabeCHRISTOPH BRAUN Researcher, University of Freiburg im BreisgauDAVID CHALCROFT Head of Sociology, University of DerbyMARTIN GREEN Research Professor, Centre for Advanced Study in the Behavioural Sciences, University of StanfordEDITH HANKE Redakteurin, Max Weber GesamtausgabeCARL LEVY Historian, Goldsmith's College, LondonULRICH LINSE Professor of Modern History, Technische Hochschule, MunichMARY SHIELDS Lecturer in Sociology and German, Oxford Brookes UniversityCHRISTOPHER STANLEY Barrister and Quintin Hogg Fellow in Law and Social Theory, University of WestminsterCHARLES Tl3‡