Classical Theory

Question:
Compare and contrast the ways Freud, Simmel, Weber, and Marx treat the themes of conflict and domination, demonstrating how each theorist’s particular method shapes his treatment of these themes. Consult the appendix for the statement of weber’s method of verstehen and Freud’s method of hermeneutics which you will need to contrast with Marx’s method of dialectical materialism and Simmel’s method articulated in “ the problem of sociology”

The following are URL are where to find the reading for the paper and make sure to in-text cited. if you use direct quotations from the text make sure to add the page number.

Marx

McLellan anthology of Marx’s Selected Writing http://fdjpkc.fudan.edu.cn/_upload/article/files/4f/da/5fe26f6e4fea8bd54a16b27d5e32/39915539-2410-4cd2-8835-4d3b6a5f4a57.pdf

Isaiah Berlin, Karl Marx
https://thecharnelhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Isaiah-Berlin-Karl-Marx.pdf

Communist Manifesto, McClellan, ch.18; Berlin, ch. 1.
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, McClellan, ch. 8; Berlin, chs. 3-5.
German Ideology, McLellan, ch. 14; Berlin, ch. 6.
Last Day to Drop With Full Refund)
Grundisse, McLellan, ch. 29; “The Fetishism of Commodities,” McLellan, pp. 458-64, 472-81; Berlin, pp. 173-183.

Weber:
https://archive.org/stream/frommaxweberessa00webe#page/n13

Gerth and Mills, From Max Weber (alternative version below)
https://ia802705.us.archive.org/12/items/frommaxweberessa00webe/frommaxweberessa00webe.pdf

Gerth and Mills, From Max Weber (search for Politics as a Vocation; Science as a Vocation; Class, Status, and Power)
https://archive.org/stream/frommaxweberessa00webe#page/n13

Weber, Politics as a Vocation (alternative format)
fs2.american.edu › dfagel › www › Weber › PoliticsAsAVocation

Weber, Science as a Vocation (alternative format)
http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~oded/X/WeberScienceVocation.pdf

Weber, Protestant Ethic
https://is.muni.cz/el/1423/podzim2013/SOC571E/um/_Routledge_Classics___Max_Weber-The_Protestant_Ethic_and_the_Spirit_of_Capitalism__Routledge_Classics_-Routledge__2001_.pdf

Weber, Protestant Ethic (alternative format)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/weber/protestant-ethic/index.htm

Politics as a Vocation,” Gerth & Mills IV.
“Science as a Vocation,” Gerth & Mills V.
Class, Bureaucracy, Charisma. G&M VII, VIII, IX.
“Religious Rejections of the World,” G&M XIII.
Protestant Ethic, Author’s Intro., Parts I and II.