Leo Strauss accused this thinker of nihilism for claiming that "the individual has to decide which is God for him and which is the devil." At the end of an essay, this writer predicted a "polar night of icy darkness and hardness." This social scientist argued that a "polytheism of values" forced empirical academic research to be "value-free," and defined modernity as "rationalization" and "disenchantment." This thinker described the ideal type of "modern officialdom" in 
Leo Strauss accused this thinker of nihilism for claiming that "the individual has to decide which is God for him and which is the devil." At the end of an essay, this writer predicted a "polar night of icy darkness and hardness." This social scientist argued that a "polytheism of values" forced empirical academic research to be "value-free," and defined modernity as "rationalization" and "disenchantment." This thinker described the ideal type of "modern officialdom" in his essay on bureaucracy, whose form of authority differed greatly from his description of charismatic leadership. For 10 points, name this author of Science as a Vocation, a German social theorist who defined the state as an entity with a monopoly on legitimate violence in Politics as a Vocation.
Leo Strauss accused this thinker of nihilism for claiming that "the individual has to decide which is God for him and which is the devil."
Max Weber