Max Weber. Life at the turn of the eras

At the age of thirteen, Max Weber stones the works of Machiavelli and Luther, twenty-nine - already a professor. At some moments, he manifests himself as a zealous nationalist, but at the same time gets acquainted with interest with the "American lifestyle". Max Weber (1864-1920) is not only one of the most influential thinkers of Modern, but also incredibly bright, contradictory the figure of the spiritual life of Germany of the end of the XIX - the beginning of the twentieth centuries. He suffers typical for his era "nervous disease", works as obsessed, but no book does not finish to the end. Even his main work is "economy and society", after the author"s death. Weber"s value as a sociologist and economist, historian and lawyer is generally recognized, his work has enormous influence on entire generations of scientists and politicians around the world - but what influenced his personality? What did they move themselves? Until now, Max Weber as a person for most of his readers remained a mystery. Jurgen Kaube, one of the most famous scientific journalists of Germany, in his fascinating biography of Weber, written to the 150th anniversary from his birthday, is trying to understand and comprehend this life on the verge of exhaustion - and at the same time creates a fascinating portrait of the first, decisive phase of the era of modernity