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MAX WEBER was no believer in mystical doctrines of national genius, but he did believe that given societies had their own way of noticing, defining, and solving problems. There was, for example, a British way of approaching physics that differed from the Continental way. This truth is admirably illustrated by these two important new volumes in the "International Library of Sociology". It is not a simple contrast between the German academic temperament and training and the American. Max Weber was, in many ways, anima naturaliter Americana. But as a German professor and a German citizen deeply and justly concerned for the present and future of his country, he was bound to deal with different problems than those which rightly concern and interest Prof. Lasswell ; and if the publication of these books had no other justification, it would have this, that the two books illustrate this difference of approach and of method.
From Max Weber
Essays in Sociology, translated, edited and with an Introduction by H. H. Gerth C. Wright Mills. (International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction.) Pp. xi + 490. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1947.) 21s. net.
The Analysis of Political Behaviour
An Empirical Approach. By Harold D. Lasswell. (International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction.) Pp. ix + 309. (London : Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1948.) 21s. net.
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BROGAN, D. From Max Weber The Analysis of Political Behaviour. Nature 161, 950 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161950a0
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