description: Though they worked in very different disciplines, Max Weber and Thomas Mann were engaged from early in their careers in a remarkably similar enterprise converging on questions of personal identity and national self-understanding, and built upon conceptions drawn from a common intellectual and national heritage. Harvey Goldman's ambitious new book is about a part of that enterprise, the foundation of their understanding of the relation of self and work as set out in Weber's essays on religion and Mann's pre-World War I writings. Weber and Mann sought to revitalize a set of ideas of character and action--calling and personality--to guide their own lives and intellectual creation, as well as politics and the life of the nation. In their hands these ideas also became explanatory tools for understanding the crisis of their class and of Germany.By organizing the interpretation of Weber and Mann around the conceptual nexus of calling and personality, the author reveals a number of is
language: English
title: Max Weber and Thomas Mann Calling and Shaping of the Self
titlecomplete: Max Weber and Thomas Mann Calling and Shaping of the Self
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publisher: University of California Press