Ideologies / State Liberal / Max Weber
§ The minds · 1864–1920 · Germany · Sociologist & politician
Max Weber
The national liberal mind
Power, bureaucracy, and the nation.
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The founding sociologist whose national-liberal politics — capitalism plus a strong, charismatically-led nation-state — mirrored the tensions he diagnosed in modern bureaucratic society.
social
Modernist; ambivalent between liberty and the iron cage.
economic
Accepted capitalism while analysing its rationalising, bureaucratic logic.
governance
A national liberal who prized a strong state led by responsible elites.
Notable for
- 'The Protestant Ethic'
- Theory of the modern state
- Drafted Weimar constitutional ideas
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