POL 1
MODULE I – THE MODERN STATE
WEBER
To do
Read from page 9 lassman
Liberal constitutionalism and its critics
Runciman
Caesarism
Muller
Kelly
breiner
Key foci
Relationship bw pol and violence
Pol as a vocation; qualities of politicians
Ethical difficulties of pol and how to deal with them
Past questions
1. Why for Weber is political leadership mired in tragedy?
2. Why, according to Weber, does politics pose specific ethical difficulties?
3. How did Weber understand the relationship between politics and
violence? (2013)
4. How did Weber characterise the task of political leadership? (2012)
5. What kinds of politicians are needed in the modern party system
according to Max Weber? (2019)
6. What for Weber were the most important qualities of responsible political
leadership? (2018)
7. Why did Weber believe that politics was a ‘vocation’? (2017)
8. What for Weber was the primary responsibility of a political leader?
(2017)
9. What did Weber mean by the ethical paradoxes of modern politics and
how did he think political leaders could cope with them? (2016)
10.How did Weber distinguish between conviction and responsibility in
politics? (2015
11.
,POL 1
MODULE I – THE MODERN STATE
WEBER
Runciman lecture 31/09
Wiki
SEP
Yale open course
SET TEXT: Max Weber, ‘The profession and vocation of politics’, in
Weber, Political writings, Peter Lassman and Ronald Speirs, eds.
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 309-369.
• Raymond Geuss, History and illusion in politics (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2001), ch. 1 (sections 3, 6).
Stephen Turner, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Weber. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2000, chap.4.
Raymond , “Max Weber and Power Politics,” in Max Weber and Sociology
Today, ed. O. Stammer. Oxford: Blackwell, 1971, 83-100.
David Beetham, Max Weber and the Theory of Politics, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1985.
Gane, N. (1997). MAX WEBER ON THE ETHICAL IRRATIONALITY OF
POLITICAL LEADERSHIP. Sociology, 31(3), 549-564. Retrieved from
http://www.jstor.org/stable/42855835
• David Runciman, ‘Tony Blair and the politics of good intentions’ in The politics
of good intentions: history, fear and hypocrisy in the new world order,
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006), pp. 31-53.
Starr, Bradley E. “The Structure of Max Weber's Ethic of Responsibility.” The
Journal of Religious Ethics, vol. 27, no. 3, 1999, pp. 407–434. JSTOR,
www.jstor.org/stable/40015266.
• Jan-Werner Müller, Contesting democracy: political ideas in twentieth century
Europe (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013), ch. 1.
Mark E. Warren, ‘Max Weber’s liberalism for a Nietzschean World’, American
Political Science Review, vol. 82, no. 1 (1988), pp. 31–50.
Max Weber, ‘Science as a vocation’ in Max Weber, The vocation lectures,
(London: Hackett Publishing, 2004).
Geoffrey Hawthorn, ‘Max Weber’, Proceedings of the British Academy vol. 101
(1999), pp. 191-207. Not line
David Beetham, Max Weber and the theory of politics (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1985).
, POL 1
MODULE I – THE MODERN STATE
WEBER
Tracy Strong, Politics without vision: thinking without a banister in the
twentieth century (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press), chapter 3 and
interlude.
Robert Eden, Nihilism and leadership: study of Weber and Nietzsche
(Gainesville, FL: University of
Florida Presses, 1989).
Raymond Aron, ‘Max Weber and power politics’, in Max Weber and sociology
today, O. Stammer, ed. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1971), pp. 83-100.
Rune Slagstad, ‘Liberal constitutionalism and its critics: Carl Schmitt and Max
Weber’, in Constitutionalism and democracy, Jon Elster and Rune Slagstad, eds.
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
Peter Breiner, Max Weber and democratic politics (Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press, 1996).
Tom McClean, Jason Xidias and William Brett, Max Weber’s Politics as a
Vocation (London: Taylor and Francis, 2017). Not online
Wolfgang Mommsen, Max Weber and German politics 1890-1920 (London:
University of Chicago Press, 1984), chs. 3 and 10. Not online
Sam Whimster and Scott Lash, Max Weber, rationality and modernity (London:
Routledge, 2006). Not online
MODULE I – THE MODERN STATE
WEBER
To do
Read from page 9 lassman
Liberal constitutionalism and its critics
Runciman
Caesarism
Muller
Kelly
breiner
Key foci
Relationship bw pol and violence
Pol as a vocation; qualities of politicians
Ethical difficulties of pol and how to deal with them
Past questions
1. Why for Weber is political leadership mired in tragedy?
2. Why, according to Weber, does politics pose specific ethical difficulties?
3. How did Weber understand the relationship between politics and
violence? (2013)
4. How did Weber characterise the task of political leadership? (2012)
5. What kinds of politicians are needed in the modern party system
according to Max Weber? (2019)
6. What for Weber were the most important qualities of responsible political
leadership? (2018)
7. Why did Weber believe that politics was a ‘vocation’? (2017)
8. What for Weber was the primary responsibility of a political leader?
(2017)
9. What did Weber mean by the ethical paradoxes of modern politics and
how did he think political leaders could cope with them? (2016)
10.How did Weber distinguish between conviction and responsibility in
politics? (2015
11.
,POL 1
MODULE I – THE MODERN STATE
WEBER
Runciman lecture 31/09
Wiki
SEP
Yale open course
SET TEXT: Max Weber, ‘The profession and vocation of politics’, in
Weber, Political writings, Peter Lassman and Ronald Speirs, eds.
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 309-369.
• Raymond Geuss, History and illusion in politics (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2001), ch. 1 (sections 3, 6).
Stephen Turner, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Weber. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2000, chap.4.
Raymond , “Max Weber and Power Politics,” in Max Weber and Sociology
Today, ed. O. Stammer. Oxford: Blackwell, 1971, 83-100.
David Beetham, Max Weber and the Theory of Politics, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1985.
Gane, N. (1997). MAX WEBER ON THE ETHICAL IRRATIONALITY OF
POLITICAL LEADERSHIP. Sociology, 31(3), 549-564. Retrieved from
http://www.jstor.org/stable/42855835
• David Runciman, ‘Tony Blair and the politics of good intentions’ in The politics
of good intentions: history, fear and hypocrisy in the new world order,
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006), pp. 31-53.
Starr, Bradley E. “The Structure of Max Weber's Ethic of Responsibility.” The
Journal of Religious Ethics, vol. 27, no. 3, 1999, pp. 407–434. JSTOR,
www.jstor.org/stable/40015266.
• Jan-Werner Müller, Contesting democracy: political ideas in twentieth century
Europe (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013), ch. 1.
Mark E. Warren, ‘Max Weber’s liberalism for a Nietzschean World’, American
Political Science Review, vol. 82, no. 1 (1988), pp. 31–50.
Max Weber, ‘Science as a vocation’ in Max Weber, The vocation lectures,
(London: Hackett Publishing, 2004).
Geoffrey Hawthorn, ‘Max Weber’, Proceedings of the British Academy vol. 101
(1999), pp. 191-207. Not line
David Beetham, Max Weber and the theory of politics (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1985).
, POL 1
MODULE I – THE MODERN STATE
WEBER
Tracy Strong, Politics without vision: thinking without a banister in the
twentieth century (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press), chapter 3 and
interlude.
Robert Eden, Nihilism and leadership: study of Weber and Nietzsche
(Gainesville, FL: University of
Florida Presses, 1989).
Raymond Aron, ‘Max Weber and power politics’, in Max Weber and sociology
today, O. Stammer, ed. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1971), pp. 83-100.
Rune Slagstad, ‘Liberal constitutionalism and its critics: Carl Schmitt and Max
Weber’, in Constitutionalism and democracy, Jon Elster and Rune Slagstad, eds.
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
Peter Breiner, Max Weber and democratic politics (Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press, 1996).
Tom McClean, Jason Xidias and William Brett, Max Weber’s Politics as a
Vocation (London: Taylor and Francis, 2017). Not online
Wolfgang Mommsen, Max Weber and German politics 1890-1920 (London:
University of Chicago Press, 1984), chs. 3 and 10. Not online
Sam Whimster and Scott Lash, Max Weber, rationality and modernity (London:
Routledge, 2006). Not online
