ABSTRACT
The author would like to give some reminiscences, although he must overcome a good deal of resistance in facing some of his aging essays and old letters. Since the approaching centenary provided a special opportunity for both celebrating and disparaging Max Weber as a main inspiration of 'positivist sociology', the underlying political and philosophical conflicts were bound to erupt. The German organizers of the centenary were eager to strengthen their international ties. As early as July 1961, Bendix met Johannes Winckelmann, editor of several editions of Wirtschaft and Gesellschaft, who told him about the plans he and Emerich Francis of the Munich were entertaining for the centenary. In Heidelberg Parsons openly expressed his disappointment in his final remarks concluding the discussion of his paper, delivered in German, on 'Wertgebundenheit und Objektivität in den Sozialwissenschaften'. Nelson complained that the German convention had not received enough publicity in the US and provoked Herbert Marcuse, without naming him, with hyperbolic phrases.
