ABSTRACT
The glorification of the warriors death-an insight pro duced by the pathos of what Weber viewed as a national struggle for survival-was one. His personal retreat from asceticism, which will be the subject of Chapter 9, was another. The hopes for a political reform in Germany were yet another. But paralleling all of these went the scholarly in quiries of Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft and the Religions soziologie. And the underlying Motiv of these studies was, as I have said, decidedly ambivalent. On the one hand, there was the sober, painful, and recondite examination of the historical sources of rationalization. On the other, half buried beneath the ponderous weight of Webers scholarship, lay the inquiry into the cultural forces antagonistic to this "progress" that was almost more than Weber could endure.
