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- Ibid., 12.
- Michael Hollerich, “Catholic Anti-Liberalism in Weimar: Political Theology and its
Critics,” in The Weimar Moment, 17–46. - Michael Brenner, The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany (New Haven,
CT: Yale University Press, 1996); Donald L. Niewyk, Jews in Weimar Germany (New Bruns-
wick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2001). - Ulrich Rosenhagen, “‘Together a Step towards the Messianic Goal’: Jewish-Protestant
Encounter in the Weimar Republic,” in The Weimar Moment, 51. - This had been typical of German Zionists for the period before World War I, compared
to their counterparts among the Ostjuden, or Eastern European Jews; Jehuda Reinharz, Fa-
therland or Promised Land: The Dilemma of the German Jew, 1893–1914 (Ann Arbor: University
of Michigan Press, 1975), 144–170. It was more unusual in the 1920s. - The official bibliography lists only one Hebrew publication in 1923 and three short piec-
es in 1926, with none in the other years of the early 1920s; Margot Cohn and Rafael Buber,
Martin Buber: A Bibliography of his Writings, 1897–1978 (Jerusalem: Magnes, 1980), 28–32. Cf.
MBMY 5. - Buber, “Religiöses Wirken,” Blätter fur Religiösen Sozialismus 3.9 (September 1922):
34–36; Buber, “Religion und Gottesherrschaft,” Frankfurter Zeitung (April 28, 1923); cf. Buber,
“Religion and God’s Rule,” in A Believing Humanism: My Testament, 1902–1965, trans. Maurice
Friedman (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1967), 109–112. - Buber, “Drei Sätze eines religiösen Sozialismus.” Neue Wege 22.7–8 (July–August 1928):
327–329. Cf. Buber, “Three Theses of a Religious Socialism,” in PW 112–114. - Max Weber, “The Profession and Vocation of Politics,” in Political Writings, ed. Peter
Lassmann and Ronald Speirs (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 309–369. - Buber, “Three Theses,” 114.
- For “symmetrical counter-concepts,” see Reinhart Koselleck, Futures Past: On the Se-
mantics of Historical Time (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985), 197. - Max Weber, “The Nation State and Economic Policy (Inaugural lecture),” in Political
Writings, 1–28. - Wolfgang J. Mommsen, Max Weber and German Politics, 1890–1920, trans. Michael S.
Steinberg (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984), 40. - Cited in Mommsen, Max Weber and German Politics, 41 (my emphasis).
- Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1950), 65.
- David Owen and Tracy B. Strong, “Introduction: Max Weber’s Calling to Knowledge
and Action,” in The Vocation Lectures, trans. Rodney Livingstone (Indianapolis: Hackett,
2004), xlvii–xlviii. - “If you choose this particular standpoint, you will be serving this particular god and
will give offense to every other god.... As long as life is left to itself and is understood in its own
terms, it knows only that the conflict between these gods is never-ending.... Which of the
warring gods shall we serve?” Weber, “Science as a Vocation,” in The Vocation Lectures, 26–27.
This is literally a recipe for pan-demon-ium, as noted by Strauss, Natural Right and History, 45. - Wolfgang J. Mommsen, “Roberto Michels and Max Weber: Moral Conviction versus
the Politics of Responsibility,” in Wolfgang J. Mommsen, The Political and Social Theory of
Max Weber: Collected Essays (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989), 88. When Toller was
tried for treason for having held the position of president of the Bavarian Council Republic,
Weber defended his friend by pleading that he was Welt f remd, a stranger to the world. - Weber, “The Profession and Vocation of Politics,” 310.
- Ibid., 364–365.
- The lecture was delivered to the Freiestudentische Bund of the University of Munich.
Weber resisted giving the lecture at first, urging that the convener, rector Immanuel Birn-