Sociology 2270A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: German Democratic Party, German Idealism, Insomnia
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In 1893 he married his distant cousin marianne: she was later a feminist, she collected and published webers journal articles as books after his death. After his father"s death, weber became prone to nervousness and insomnia. In 1903 he became co-editor of the archive fuer sozialwissenschaft : this became the leading in germany. Between 1892 and 1905 he wrote a series of essays and speeches, which address the failure of. These articles dealt with the social and economic conditions in eastern. In 1905, the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism was published. War broke out: weber was the first german to oppose it, criticized the ineffectiveness of german leadership. The last few years of his life, he became very political: wrote many political newspaper articles, he was founding member of and active campaigner for the newly organized deutsche demokratische partei . Max weber died of pneumonia on june 14, 1920. Influence evident in weber"s sociology of ideas and interests: