Anti-Magician
Geoffrey Hawthorn: Max Weber, 27 August 2009
Max Weber: A Biography
by Joachim Radkau, translated by Patrick Camiller.
Polity, 683 pp., £25, January 2009,978 0 7456 4147 8 Show More
by Joachim Radkau, translated by Patrick Camiller.
Polity, 683 pp., £25, January 2009,
“... appeared in German in 1926, in English in 1975, and has been regarded as the most authoritative. Joachim Radkau’s was first published in German in 2005, at much greater length than in the new English edition. ‘There is no longer any reason for silence,’ he writes: all those who knew Weber are dead. ‘The truth . . . has a certain quality of ... ”
