Weber, Max - John Owen King III (essay date 1983)
John Owen King III (essay date 1983)
SOURCE: "American Apocalypse: Max Weber," in The Iron Melancholy: Structures of Spiritual Conversion in America from the Puritan Conscience to Victorian Neurosis, Wesleyan University Press, 1983, pp. 289-322.
[In the following essay, King discusses Weber's struggle with the alienation and moral stringency of Puritanism as evidenced in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.]
If my own activity does not belong to me, if it is an alien compulsive activity, to whom does it belong? To a being other than myself. Who is this being? The gods?
[Karl Marx, from the "economic-philosophic manuscripts" of 1844, in the translation of Norman O. Brown]
The religious root of modern...
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