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Classic Wine in a New, Bigger and Better Bottle: Max Weber’s Methodological Writings 1

This is an important publication for anyone who needs to read Max Weber in English. I assume that the primary driving force here is Hans Henrik Bruun and that Sam Whimster was more the publishing impresario. I do not in any way depreciate the latter function: for all we know, without Whimster the book might never have appeared. All the same Bruun did the translations which are 95 percent of the content of the book. Again, while Whimster’s fingerprints can be seen in the introduction (p. xxvii n.1), and this must of course be regarded as a co-operation, Bruun, not Whimster, is the methodology specialist, having written a pioneering book on this subject as far back as 1972, Science, Values and Politics in Max Weber’s Methodology, which he revised and reissued recently. (The interim was taken up by a distinguished professional career in the Danish diplomatic service —and Weber would surely have approved enormously of this mingling of the academic and non-academic worlds.) One important difference between those two editions was that in 1972 Bruun printed all Weber’s texts and quotations in the original German. In 2007, everything was translated—an obvious sign of the changing linguistic environment of international social science between these two dates—and in this respect the new volume of translations is a successor volume. The book is important because for the first time it gives us in one place almost all the obvious texts we associate with Weber on this subject, and which were gathered up by Marianne Weber under the neoKantian heading of Wissenschaftslehre. Such a description is too simple in a literal sense, since there is a significant penumbra here of additional textual fragments, from ‘‘other’’ printed texts, letters and even unpublished manuscript fragments, which go well beyond anything contemplated by Marianne Weber (or her later reviser Johannes Winckelmann); but still the Wissenschaftslehre is acknowledged as the kernel of the book (p. xii) just as there is an evident neo-Kantian foundation to Bruun’s reading and understanding of Weber. So here then is what in ordinary usage we might call a complete, and thoroughly adequate, translation of Weber’s writings in this area, which consolidates and supersedes the pioneering work of Hans Gerth and C. Wright Mills (1946), Edward Shils (1949), Guy Oakes (1975, 1977), and Edith Graber (1981). Max Weber: Collected Methodological Writings, edited by, Hans Henrik Bruun and Sam Whimster. Translated by Hans Henrik Bruun. New York, NY: Routledge, 2012. 563pp. $99.95 cloth. ISBN: 9780415478984.