ABSTRACT
The signs of Max Weber's familiarity with Nietzsche's oeuvre appear, initially, to be abundant. There is the incontrovertible use of specific words and phrases from Nietzsche's philosophical vocabulary, such as ascetic ideals, the slaves revolt in morality; or allusions to such phrasing, as with Nietzsche's last men who have invented happiness, or eternal recurrence; or Weber's own Nietzschean inflected phraseology, such as artist God, or simply invocation of his name, or its use in connection with one of Weber's own assertions. Before examining Weber's treatment of Nietzsche's theory of resentment, it is necessary to focus upon conceptualisation of pariah status. Nietzsche was not directly concerned with the implementation of methodical life conduct (oriented to ultimate values), but rather in asceticism in original sense of practice. Weber refused Nietzsche's attribution of the theory of resentment to Buddhism. However, Weber in his Essay on Categories still regards Nietzsche's theory of resentment to be the equal of Freud's psychoanalysis and Marx's economic materialism.
