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Wendy Brown, Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber

Harvard University Press, 2023, 144 pp., ISBN 9780674279384

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  1. Weber, Max. [1919]2004. The Vocation Lectures:

    “Science as a Vocation”; “Politics as a Vocation,” ed. David Owen and Tracy B. Strong, trans. Rodney Livingstone. Cambridge, MA: Hackett Publishing Company.

  2. She relies for this concept on a brilliant book by Robert Eden,1983, Political Leadership & Nihilism: A Study of Weber & Nietzsche, Tampa: University Presses of Florida.

  3. Weber, Max. [1949]2011. “The Meaning of ‘Ethical Neutrality’ in Sociology and Economics.” pp. 1-49 in The Methodology of the Social Sciences, ed. and trans. E. Shils and H. Finch. New York: Routledge.

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Turner, S. Wendy Brown, Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber. Soc 60, 457–460 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-023-00848-7

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