Series: The Tanner Lectures on Human Values

A Seminary Co-op Notable Book "What makes Brown's book especially well worth reading is her impressive ability to show how key themes in Weber's scholarship - including his emphasis on the defining characteristics of modernity... speak to our own time." - Inside Higher Ed "Presses us to think more carefully and imaginatively about the relationships among human freedom, human value,...

One of America's leading political theorists analyses the nihilism degrading and confounding political and academic life today. Through readings of Max Weber's Vocation Lectures, she proposes ways to counter nihilism's devaluations of both knowledge and political responsibility. How has politics become a playpen for vain demagogues? Why has the university become an ideological war zone? What has happened to truth?...