Charisma and Disenchantment: The Vocation Lectures

Synopsis

A new translation of two celebrated lectures on politics, academia, and the disenchantment of the world. In 1919, just months before he died unexpectedly of pneumonia, the sociologist max weber published two lectures that he had recently delivered at the invitation of a group of students. The question the students asked weber to address in these lectures was simple and haunting. In a modern world characterized by the division of labor, constant economic expansion, and unrelenting change, was vocation, in intellectual work or politics, still possible?