Reading Max Weber: Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin

European Journal of Political Theory

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 151-166

  Gunnell, John ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Historicism; Neo Kantian; Political science; Political theory; Politics; Relativism; Strauss; Voegelin; Weber; Weimar

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247652732     PISSN: 14748851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1474885104041044     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. John G. Gunnell (1993) The Descent of Political Theory: The Genealogy of an American Vocation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2. For a recent overview of the extensive literature, see Colin Loader and David Kettler (2002) Karl Mannheim's Sociology as Political Education. New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Transaction.
3. For a fuller discussion of these issues, see John G. Gunnell (1998) The Orders of Discourse: Philosophy, Social Science, and Politics. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
4. For a discussion of these issues, see Thomas Burger (1976) Max Weber's Theory of Concept Formation. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
5. Toby E. Huff (1984) Max Weber and the Methodology of the Social Sciences. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction.
6. Jay A. Ciaffa (1998) Max Weber and the Problem of Value-Free Social Science. London: Associated University Presses.
7. Leo Strauss (1953) Natural Right and History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
8. Eric Voegelin (1952) The New Science of Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
9. Sheldon S. Wolin (1981) 'Max Weber: Legitimation, Method, and the Politics of Theory', Political Theory 9: 401-42.
10. Max Weber (1975) Roscher and Knies: The Logical Problems of Historical Economics, ed. Guy Oakes, pp. 14-15. New York: Free Press.
11. Max Weber (1948) The Methodology of the Social Sciences, ed. Edward A. Shils and Henry A. Finch, pp. 19, 51, 53-60. Glencoe, IL: Free Press.
12. Max Weber, The Methodology of the Social Sciences, Ibid., pp. 72-80.
13. Some of the relevant essays by Weber include 'Rocher's Historical Method' (1905),
14. 'Knies on the Problem of Irrationality' (1905, 1906),
15. 'The Logic of the Cultural Science' (1906),
16. 'Critique of Stammler' (1907),
17. and 'On Some Categories of Interpretive Sociology' (1913).
18. Richard Rudner (1966) Philosophy of Social Science. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
19. Ernest Nagel (1961) The Structure of Science. New York: Harcourt Brace & World.