Hans-Peter Müller

For Weber, the investigation of social and individual life were inextricably interwoven and belonged inexorably together. To study the economy and the societal orders and powers implies the necessity to figure out which type of human being and what kind of conduct of life the prevailing culture primarily selects. The conduct of life – and this is the central theoretical thesis of my essay – was the indispensable end moraine of Weber’s sociology...