Alfred Weber was an important participant in the dialogue over the political and cultural crises of the late Empire and Weimar Republic. This study connects Weber's career to the social, political, intellectual, cultural, and institutional contexts of the period.

Autorentext
Colin Loader is professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has written primarily on the history of German sociology. He is the author of The Intellectual Development of Karl Mannheim, and is the co-author or co-translator of three other books on Mannheim.

Inhalt
PART I. Alfred Weber in the German Empire The Context of Alfred Weber's Early Work Early Economic Writings Heidelberg and the Empire, 1907-1917 The Question and Sociology of Culture The Cultural Theory of Politics PART II. Alfred Weber in the Weimar Republic The Weimar Republic and the End of the Discursive Coalition The Sociology of Culture in Weimar Cultural Politics in Weimar Epilogue: Alfred Weber after 1933