People worked hard long before there was a thing called the “work ethic,” much less a “Protestant work ethic.” The phrase itself emerged early in the twentieth century and has since congealed into a ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The papers of New York painter and sculptor Max Weber measure 11.6 linear feet and date from 1902-2008. The collection documents Weber's career as ...

At the end of 1908, after a three-year stint living and painting in Paris, the artist Max Weber (1881–1960) returned to a New York that had scarcely heard of Henri Rousseau or Paul Cézanne, much less ...

I n the summer of 1917, a group of university students in Munich invited Max Weber to launch a lecture series on “intellectual work as a vocation” with a talk about the scholar’s work. He was, in a ...

IN JANUARY 1919 Munich was in turmoil. Revolution in November of the previous year had swept away the King of Bavaria, installing a ramshackle regime headed by a messianic journalist of the radical ...