ABSTRACT
Max Weber's vocation lectures have made a significant impact on sociological and organisational thinking in the twentieth century. At the outset of the twenty-first century, however, Weber's distinction between prophets and priests of Wissenschaft has become an introductory lesson on authority and perhaps even nostalgia for emphasising a difference in authorial attitude. Weber uses the term Wissenschaft to designate science in general or the rigorous systematic approach to inquiry into the world that eschews dilettantism that is mathematics as a science, poetry as a science, jurisprudence as a science. The future of the calling to jurisprudence, not merely the rational acquisition of a law degree or a law job but as Wissenschaft, is difficult to see. Weber, Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan offer some solace that the turmoil of legal rationality is what brings satisfaction to the individuals involved in the form of a promise of some future satisfaction.
