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This session is a book discussion of Victor Strazzeri's 'The Young Max Weber and German Social Democracy'
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This broadcast is a discussion of Victor Strazzeri's new book 'The Young Max Weber and German Social Democracy: the ‘Labour Question’ and the Genesis of Social Theory in Imperial Germany (1884-1899)'
This book is Volume: 259 of Historical Materialism Book Series,
The Young Max Weber and German Social Democracy examines the formative years of a classic social thinker once called the ‘bourgeois Marx’ from the standpoint of his relationship to the foremost working-class organization of his time. It argues that Weber’s early engagement with the standpoint of the rural worker — not his later study of the ethics of ascetic Protestant entrepreneurs — first convinced him of the central role of culture in human agency. The crisis of liberalism in a rapidly modernising, conflict-ridden Imperial Germany embarking on colonial expansion emerges in the work as the decisive setting for the genesis of Weberian social thought; the rising labour movement, in turn, as the young Weber’s little-know yet crucial interlocutor.
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Speakers are:
Victor Strazzeri is an Associate Researcher at the Historical Institute of the University of Bern, where he is working on a research project titled "Purple on red: (euro)communists and feminists in the global 1970s". He is also coordinator of the project 'Internationalization of the Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism" with the Berliner Institut für kritische Theorie (InkriT). His main research interests are in classic social theory (Marxist theory, Max Weber); transnational and global history, and the history of the labor, communist and feminist movements.
Sara R. Farris is Reader in Sociology at Goldsmiths , University of London, UK. Her expertise is in social theory, gender, migration and care/social reproduction and the mobilisation of feminist themes by nationalist parties within anti-immigration and anti-Islam campaigns, or “femonationalism”. Her publications include: In the Name of Women’s Rights. The Rise of Femonationalism (2017) and Max Weber’s Theory of Personality. Individuation, Politics and Orientalism in the Sociology of Religion (2013). Her research has been funded by the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the European Commission through the Daphne III and Marie Curie Programmes, and the Leverhulme Trust.
Angela Zimmerman - Professor of International Affairs and History, George Washington University, USA. Angela Zimmerman studies revolutions, political thought, imperialism, and capitalism, exploring decolonizing approaches to history, including transnational archival research and the use of social and political theory. Her recent research has focused on the global history of the U.S. Civil War, Reconstruction, and the New South. She is the author of Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South (2010) and the editor of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Civil War in the United States (2016). Her scholarship has been supported by organizations including the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
The Chair of the Session will be Tom Kemple, Professor of Sociology and the University of British Columbia, Canada. His research focuses on European and North American traditions of classical and contemporary social theory from the late 18th century to the present, emphasizing the reappraisal of classic problems and the recovery of forgotten or undervalued ideas, texts, and authors in the history of the social sciences. His publications are at the intersection of sociological and literary critique. Recent publications include: Marx’s Wager: Das Kapital and Classical Sociology (2022) and Writing the Body Politic: A John O’Neill Reader, co-edited with Mark Featherstone (2020)
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PLEASE NOTE: All HM Online events are free to register, however we would ask comrades who are able to please consider making a donation, which would help us enormously in covering the costs of putting of this programme of events. Like all left organisations, HM has had a very tough period since the beginning of 2020 and our budgets are very stretched and bank balance is sinking all the time, with very little revenue coming in. If you can make a contribution to keep us afloat, please don’t hesitate!
This session is a book discussion of Victor Strazzeri's 'The Young Max Weber and German Social Democracy'
---------------------------------------------------------------------
This broadcast is a discussion of Victor Strazzeri's new book 'The Young Max Weber and German Social Democracy: the ‘Labour Question’ and the Genesis of Social Theory in Imperial Germany (1884-1899)'
This book is Volume: 259 of Historical Materialism Book Series,
The Young Max Weber and German Social Democracy examines the formative years of a classic social thinker once called the ‘bourgeois Marx’ from the standpoint of his relationship to the foremost working-class organization of his time. It argues that Weber’s early engagement with the standpoint of the rural worker — not his later study of the ethics of ascetic Protestant entrepreneurs — first convinced him of the central role of culture in human agency. The crisis of liberalism in a rapidly modernising, conflict-ridden Imperial Germany embarking on colonial expansion emerges in the work as the decisive setting for the genesis of Weberian social thought; the rising labour movement, in turn, as the young Weber’s little-know yet crucial interlocutor.
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Speakers are:
Victor Strazzeri is an Associate Researcher at the Historical Institute of the University of Bern, where he is working on a research project titled "Purple on red: (euro)communists and feminists in the global 1970s". He is also coordinator of the project 'Internationalization of the Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism" with the Berliner Institut für kritische Theorie (InkriT). His main research interests are in classic social theory (Marxist theory, Max Weber); transnational and global history, and the history of the labor, communist and feminist movements.
Sara R. Farris is Reader in Sociology at Goldsmiths , University of London, UK. Her expertise is in social theory, gender, migration and care/social reproduction and the mobilisation of feminist themes by nationalist parties within anti-immigration and anti-Islam campaigns, or “femonationalism”. Her publications include: In the Name of Women’s Rights. The Rise of Femonationalism (2017) and Max Weber’s Theory of Personality. Individuation, Politics and Orientalism in the Sociology of Religion (2013). Her research has been funded by the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the European Commission through the Daphne III and Marie Curie Programmes, and the Leverhulme Trust.
Angela Zimmerman - Professor of International Affairs and History, George Washington University, USA. Angela Zimmerman studies revolutions, political thought, imperialism, and capitalism, exploring decolonizing approaches to history, including transnational archival research and the use of social and political theory. Her recent research has focused on the global history of the U.S. Civil War, Reconstruction, and the New South. She is the author of Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South (2010) and the editor of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Civil War in the United States (2016). Her scholarship has been supported by organizations including the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
The Chair of the Session will be Tom Kemple, Professor of Sociology and the University of British Columbia, Canada. His research focuses on European and North American traditions of classical and contemporary social theory from the late 18th century to the present, emphasizing the reappraisal of classic problems and the recovery of forgotten or undervalued ideas, texts, and authors in the history of the social sciences. His publications are at the intersection of sociological and literary critique. Recent publications include: Marx’s Wager: Das Kapital and Classical Sociology (2022) and Writing the Body Politic: A John O’Neill Reader, co-edited with Mark Featherstone (2020)
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PLEASE NOTE: All HM Online events are free to register, however we would ask comrades who are able to please consider making a donation, which would help us enormously in covering the costs of putting of this programme of events. Like all left organisations, HM has had a very tough period since the beginning of 2020 and our budgets are very stretched and bank balance is sinking all the time, with very little revenue coming in. If you can make a contribution to keep us afloat, please don’t hesitate!
