Max Weber’s Theory and Practice of German Bürgerlichkeit (original) (raw)

The main thesis of this paper is that the work and life of Max Weber expresses this traditional German Bürgerlichkeit. The initial focus will be on a specific work by Weber which deals with this tradition of the European city: his essay on the city, a part of his ‘unfinished project of a comparative study of the European Bürgertum’.6 I will then attempt to reconstruct the specific way of life which characterises Weber and his family. Finally, the essay will attempt to connect the two levels, his theoretical work and his practical lifestyle, in an analysis of the three faces of Weber we are concerned with here.