In one book, this thinker described "legality", the "gift of grace", and the "authority of the eternal yesterday" as the three sources of legitimation and noted that while the optimism of Shakespeare's Sonnet 102 would be nice, it is not "summer's bloom" that lies ahead of us, but a "polar night of icy darkness and hardness".
In one book, this thinker described "legality", the "gift of grace", and the "authority of the eternal yesterday" as the three sources of legitimation and noted that while the optimism of Shakespeare's Sonnet 102 would be nice, it is not "summer's bloom" that lies ahead of us, but a "polar night of icy darkness and hardness". In that same book, he described the state as an entity which, within its boundaries, "claims the (*) monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force". In his most famous book, which was first translated into English by Talcott Parsons, he lamented how the "cloak" of care for external goods had become an "iron cage" of rationality and analyzed the economic effects of Calvinism. For 10 points, name this German sociologist who wrote Politics as a Vocation and The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
In one book, this thinker described "legality", the "gift of grace", and the "authority of the eternal yesterday" as the three sources of legitimation and noted that while the optimism of Shakespeare's Sonnet 102 would be nice, it is not "summer's bloom" that lies ahead of us, but a "polar night of icy darkness and hardness".
Max Weber [or Karl Emil Maximilian Weber]