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Books that will help?

Is it difficult to read Weber in German?

I know Russian and English, now I want to learn French and German with the main goal of reading the classics of sociology in the original language.

Where do i begin?

why is he so much smarter than marx

>>18896972
>That's why a vanguard (the party) is needed

mfw

You are exactly the reason why Marxism always fails in practice.

I don't get it. What was he trying to say?
>dude I know the fragmentation of science and division of labour is stupefying but you just have to cope with it. there's nothing you can do.
The commies were right to boo him during his Vocation Lectures. He proposes no real solution to the Entzauberung and just says bro what if life after modernity is open ended das sum real shit

>YOU WILL WORK ALL DAY LONG
>YOU WILL NOT CONSUME ANYTHING BEYOND MERE SUBSISTENCE
>YOU WILL ACCUMULATE CAPITAL
>DO NOT ASK WHY JUST ACCUMULATE

Any books on how to escape the Weberian bureaucratic hell of rationalization?

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>>17102361
>>17106210
Men back then weren't feminine sycophants like most are today, you didn't grin like a child in paintings or photos because you weren't trying to give the air of a fake "happy" persona.

>Max Weber
>Btfo's Marx and Nietzche
>heavily influences Adam Curtis

Why is he not in fashion in modern academia?

Does anyone have a good resource that summarises each of Weber's main theories? Cheers.

he says you deserve nothing but to be a cog in the bureaucratic machine. administrative efficiency > your happiness. what would you say to mr. weber?

Is there a single person more utterly BTFO by history? he was wrong about literally everything

>Western civilization isn't successful because it's rational. Capitalism is so IRRATIONAL that it's grown completely out of control
>Capitalist business ethic is centuries older than Protestantism and a lot has been written about this since. For example the burgeoning Italian capitalism of the middle ages and the invention of double entry bookkeeping
>His argument that authority is nothing but the possession of power is in retrospect so derivatively Nietzschean and shows a complete lack of self awareness

>sociology is something of a joke field

Why did it have to be this way bros? Is the hope of studying society scientifically just cringe nonsense? Can sociology ever match up to psychology, or pure math/physics?

>>15091800
Congratulations, you have the honor being less retarded than your previous posters. Still, you only have a passing mention of him without mentioning any of his works and instead recommend all that French schizo crap, so we might say, you're retarded enough.

Weber is arguably the only sociologist worth reading.

All pleb answers.

>>14777290
Germans were so great at posing for pictures/paintings. Just look at pic related and compare with modern pictures.

>>14770326
Marx is cringe. /lit/ is a Weberian board.

Thoughts on this fine gentleman? Which parts of Economy and Society is most important to read?