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This major study of the father of modern sociology explores the intimate relationship between the events of Max Weber's personal history and the development of his thought. When it was first published in 1970, Paul Roazen described The Iron Cage as "an example of the history of ideas at its very best"; while Robert A. Nisbet said that "we learn more about Weber's life in this volume than from any other in the English language."Weber's life and work developed in reaction to the rigidities of familial and social structures in Imperial Germany. In his youth he was torn by irreconcilable tensions between the Bismarckian authoritarianism of his father and the ethical puritanism of his mother. These tensions led to a psychic crisis when, in his thirties, he expelled his father (who died soon thereafter) from his house. His reaction to the collapse of the European social order before and during World War I was no less personal and profound. It is the triumph of Professor Mitzman's approach that he convincingly demonstrates how the internalizing of these severe experiences led to Weber's pessimistic vision of the future as an "iron cage" and to such seminal ideas as the notion of charisma and the concept of the Protestant ethic and its connection with the spirit of capitalism. The author's thesis also serves as a vehicle for describing the social, political, and personal plight of the European bourgeois intellectual of Weber's generation.In synthesizing Weber's life and thought, Arthur Mitzman has expanded and refined our understanding of this central twentieth-century figure. As Lewis Coser writes in the preface, until now "there has been little attempt to bring together the work and the man, to show the ways in which Weber's cognitive intentions, his choice of problems, were linked with the details of his personal biography. Arthur Mitzman fills this gap brilliantly."

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Arthur Mitzman is professor of modern European history at the University of Amsterdam in Holland. He has taught at Brooklyn College, Goddard College, the University of Rochester, and Simon Fraser University, and is the author of The Iron Cage: An Historical Interpretation of Max Weber.

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“Mitzman’s book must take its place among the four or five best works in psycho-history that we now have. It is a powerful instance of how intellectual history can be deepened and made animate with real life.”

—Bruce Mazlish, History and Theory

“Professor Mitzman has written a psychoanalytically organized study of max Weber, linking Weber’s personal anxieties to the development of aspects of his work and placing him in the context of a bourgeois generation faced with particularly severe psychic conflicts.”

—Fred Weinstein, The American Historical Review

The Iron Cage is a psychoanalytic interpretation of Max Weber’s life and work. The title of the book refers to Weber’s statement in The Protestant Ethic that modern man’s life is determined by the iron cage of institutionalized asceticism. Mitzman accepts this proposition and analyzes Weber’s conscious and unconscious reaction to the encagement, tracing his quest for liberation.... The Iron Cage is a contribution to our knowledge of Max Weber and the history of his ideas. Mitzman has combined a chronological interpretation of Weber’s personal life and scholarly activity with a report of Weber’s attitudes about German politics.”

—Pat N. Lackey, American Sociological Review

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