The scientist in search of salvation

pp. 62-77

in: Martin Albrow, Max Weber's construction of social theory, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1990

Abstract

This chapter completes an account of the origins of Weber's worldview and thus the premises of his social theory. It will depict Weber's resolution of the conflicts which were contained within the Protestant Kantian ideal framework and which Nietzsche had sought to magnify to the point of destroying traditional morality.