{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/7a3c5644-595b-4535-89cb-4df503953241/9de0672b-0d85-4af2-a045-d17d8a460adb?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Weber on Leadership","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6195407ecb03c875f76170fd/6195408d054fb40012de7d30.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>Max Weber’s The Profession and Vocation of Politics (1919) was a lecture that became one of the defining texts of twentieth century political thought.&nbsp;In it, Weber explores the perils and paradoxes of leadership in a modern state.&nbsp;Is it possible to do bad in order to do good?&nbsp;Can violence ever be virtuous?&nbsp;Does political responsibility send politicians mad?&nbsp;David discusses the legacy of Weber’s ideas and asks: who is the true Weberian politician?</p><p><br></p><p>Free online version of the text:</p><ul><li>&nbsp;<a href=\"http://fs2.american.edu/dfagel/www/class%20readings/weber/politicsasavocation.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http://fs2.american.edu/dfagel/www/class%20readings/weber/politicsasavocation.pdf</a></li></ul><p>Recommended version to purchase:&nbsp;</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.amazon.co.uk/Weber-Political-Writings-Cambridge-History/dp/0521397197\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.amazon.co.uk/Weber-Political-Writings-Cambridge-History/dp/0521397197</a></li></ul><p>Going Deeper:</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v31/n16/geoffrey-hawthorn/anti-magician\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Geoffrey Hawthorn on Max Weber for the LRB</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.amazon.co.uk/Max-Weber-Joachim-Radkau/dp/0745641482\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Joachim Radkau, Max Weber (Polity, 2009)</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/blog/2019/141-the-problem-with-political-leaders\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Talking Politics on ‘Politics as a Vocation’ with Jonathan Powell</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.amazon.co.uk/Contesting-Democracy-Political-Twentieth-Century-Europe/dp/0300194129\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Jan-Werner Müller, <em>Contesting democracy: political ideas in twentieth century Europe</em> (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013)</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v25/n09/david-runciman/the-politics-of-good-intentions\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">David for the LRB on Weber, Tony Blair, and the politics of good intentions</a></li></ul>","author_name":"Talking Politics"}