纽约书评经典系列：魅力与失望：职业讲座（马克斯·韦伯） Charisma and Disenchantment: The Vocation Lectures Max Weber,translated from the German by Damion Searls

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 104 pages

Publisher:The New York Review of Books, Inc

Imprint:The New York Review of Books, Inc

ISBN:9781681373898

Published:4 Feb 2020

Classifications:Sociology & anthropology

Weight:206g

Dimensions:128 x 201 x 13 (mm)

基本信息仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

关于政治、学术和对世界的失望的两篇演讲的全新译本。

德国社会学家马克斯-韦伯（Max Weber）是现代社会中大胆、具启发性和有影响力的理论家之一。他重要的作品包括所谓的 "天职演讲"，这些演讲是在一战结束后不久应一群学生活动家的邀请发表的。学生们要求韦伯回答的问题既简单又萦绕心头：在一个以劳动分工、经济扩张和无情变革为特征的现代世界中，是否还有可能将学术或政治生涯视为真正的使命？对此，韦伯提出了他的 "对世界的失望 "诊断，并对道德在课堂和研究中的地位进行了挑战性的阐述。在第二次演讲中，他提出了 "政治魅力"（political charisma）的概念，并赋予其在现代国家中的核心作用，同时他也认识到，政治更多的是 "在坚硬的木板上缓慢而艰难地钻孔"。

Damion Searls 的新译本将这些著名演讲的力量和细微差别展现得淋漓尽致。保罗-雷特（Paul Reitter）和查德-韦尔蒙（Chad Wellmon）的导言介绍了这些演讲的历史和传记背景、接受情况和影响。韦伯在动荡的二十世纪初重新思考公共召唤的理念，其努力被揭示出来，一如既往地及时和激动人心。

A new translation of two celebrated lectures on politics, academia, and the disenchantment of the world.

The German sociologist Max Weber is one of the most venturesome, stimulating, and influential theorists of the modern condition. Among his most significant works are the so-called vocation lectures, published shortly after the end of World War I and delivered at the invitation of a group of student activists. The question the students asked Weber to address was simple and haunting: In a modern world characterized by the division of labor, economic expansion, and unrelenting change, was it still possible to consider an academic or political career as a genuine calling? In response Weber offered his famous diagnosis of “the disenchantment of the world,” along with a challenging account of the place of morality in the classroom and in research. In his second lecture he introduced the notion of political charisma, assigning it a central role in the modern state, even as he recognized that politics is more than anything “a slow and difficult drilling of holes into hard boards.” 

Damion Searls’s new translation brings out the power and nuance of these celebrated lectures. Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon’s introduction describes their historical and biographical background, reception, and influence. Weber’s effort to rethink the idea of a public calling at the start of the tumultuous twentieth century is revealed to be as timely and stirring as ever.

作者简介

马克斯-韦伯（1864-1920 年）是一位社会学家、哲学家、法学家和政治经济学家。他被认为是现代社会学的奠基人之一，著名的作品是《新教伦理与资本主义精神》。

Damion Searls 是一位德语、法语、挪威语和荷兰语翻译家，也是一位英语作家。他的著作包括《我们在做什么和我们要去哪里》、《墨迹》和《翻译哲学》。2019年，他凭借乌韦-约翰逊的《周年纪念》获得海伦和库尔特-沃尔夫翻译奖。

保罗-雷特在俄亥俄州立大学德语系任教。他与查德-韦尔蒙（Chad Wellmon）共同编辑了《反教育》（Anti-Education）一书： On the Future of Our Educational Institutions by Friedrich Nietzsche》一书，该书于 2015 年由 NYRB Classics 出版。

Chad Wellmon著有《成为人类》（Becoming Human：浪漫主义人类学与自由的体现》、《组织启蒙运动》、《信息超载与社会发明》等著作。他是弗吉尼亚大学的教师。

Max Weber (1864–1920) was a sociologist, philosopher, jurist, and political economist. Considered one of the founders of modern sociology, he is best known for his book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

Damion Searls is a translator from German, French, Norwegian, and Dutch and a writer in English. His own books include What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going, The Inkblots,and The Philosophy of Translation. He received the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize in 2019 for Uwe Johnson's Anniversaries.

Paul Reitter teaches in the German department at the Ohio State University. He is the co-editor, along with Chad Wellmon, of Anti-Education: On the Future of Our Educational Institutions by Friedrich Nietzsche, which was published by NYRB Classics in 2015. 

Chad Wellmon is the author of Becoming Human: Romantic Anthropology and the Embodiment of Freedom, Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University, and the forthcoming Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age. He is on the faculty of the University of Virginia.