* 1897 – Max Weber, Swiss politician ( d. 1974 )

* 1864 – Max Weber, German economist and sociologist ( d. 1920 )

Max Weber

The Ultimate end is a concept in the moral philosophy of Max Weber, in which individuals act in a faithful, rather than rational, manner.

Derived from Marx and Max Weber, Karl August Wittfogel argued that bureaucracy arose to manage irrigation systems.

Modern critical theory arose from the anti-positivist sociology of Max Weber and Georg Simmel, the Marxist theories of György Lukács and of Antonio Gramsci, towards that of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt.

His ideas regarding the relationship between modernity and rationalization are in this sense strongly influenced by Max Weber.

* 1974 – Max Weber, Swiss politician ( b. 1897 )

The sociologist Max Weber was born in Erfurt, and the theologian and philosopher Meister Eckhart was Prior of Erfurt's Dominican Order.

* Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies

This argument, first proposed by Max Weber, says that the efficient exchange and use of resources can be maintained only through the price mechanism in free markets ( see economic calculation problem ).

The concept is also present in the work of Max Weber, Gilles Deleuze, and Edmund Husserl.

German sociologist Max Weber mentioned Scottish Presbyterianism in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism ( 1905 ), and many scholars in recent decades argued that Calvinism's " this worldly asceticism " was integral to Scotland's rapid economic modernization.

Marx is typically cited, with Émile Durkheim and Max Weber, as one of the three principal architects of modern social science.

Marx is typically cited, along with Émile Durkheim and Max Weber, as one of the three principal architects of modern social science.

Although social scientists such as Max Weber sought to understand and explain religion in terms of a cultural attribute, Richard Dawkins called for a re-analysis of religion in terms of the evolution of self-replicating ideas apart from any resulting biological advantages they might bestow.

Maximilian Karl Emil " Max " Weber (; 21 April 1864 – 14 June 1920 ) was a German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist who profoundly influenced social theory, social research, and the discipline of sociology itself.

After the First World War, Max Weber was among the founders of the liberal German Democratic Party.

He was the eldest of the seven children of Max Weber Sr., a wealthy and prominent civil servant and member of the National Liberal Party, and his wife Helene ( Fallenstein ), who partly descended from French Huguenot immigrants and held strong moral absolutist ideas.

Max Weber and his brothers, Alfred Weber | Alfred and Karl, in 1879

Max Weber and his wife Marianne in 1894

In 1897 Max Weber Sr. died, two months after a severe quarrel with his son that was never resolved.

This chronicle was supposedly destroyed because Marianne Weber feared that Max Weber's work would be discredited by the Nazis if his experience with mental illness were widely known.

Max Weber ( foreground ) in 1917 with Ernst Toller ( facing )

* 1984 – Max Bemis, American singer, musician, and songwriter ( Say Anything, Two Tongues, and Max Bemis and the Painful Splits )

* 1865 – Max Nettlau, German anarchist and historian ( d. 1944 )

* 1973 – Max Kellerman, American sportscaster

* 1943 – Max Wright, American actor

* 1976 – Max Ernst, German artist ( b. 1891 )

* 1988 – Max Carver, American actor

* 1971 – Max Beesley, English actor and musician

* 1857 – Max Wagenknecht, German composer ( d. 1922 )

* 1891 – Max Ernst, German painter ( d. 1976 )

* 1915 – Max Robertson, English sportscaster ( d. 2009 )

* 1969 – Max Cavalera, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Sepultura, Soulfly, Nailbomb, and Cavalera Conspiracy )

* 1960 – Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1879 )

More excavated material from the excavations of Max Mallowan at Chagar Bazar and Tell Brak in 1935 – 1938, and from Woolley at Alalakh in the years just before and after the Second World War.

Beginning around 1960, the philosopher and historian of ideas Max Fisch ( 1900 – 1995 ) emerged as an authority on Peirce ; Fisch ( 1986 ) includes many of his relevant articles, including a wide-ranging survey ( Fisch 1986: 422 – 48 ) of the impact of Peirce's thought through 1983.

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* 1919 – Max Yasgur, owner of the Woodstock Festival site ( d. 1973 )

* 1883 – Max Linder, French pioneer of silent film ( d. 1925 )

* 1823 – Friedrich Max Müller, German orientalist ( d. 1900 )

* 1910 – Max Miedinger, typeface designer, famous for creating Helvetica in 1957.

* 1882 – Max Born, German physicist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1970 )