With the economic determinism that led to historical materialism, Marx fell into the same trap as Hegel: the program impossible to deduce from the concept reality. Weber will - by far the most important sociologist of knowledge of history - inadvertently responsible for and to whom we owe (no less!) The claim of social sciences for the recognition of the limits of its explanatory power. In the work of Weber combine, miraculously, the lucid teleological ambition (the major topics: the contrast between modernity and tradition, the rationalization of history and society) and the brilliant epistemological modesty (The ideal type, the multiple historical soft).
intellectual greatness involves high doses of irresponsibility and cynicism.
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