Dr. Keith Tribe

CCGES and York’s Program in Social and Political Thought present a lecture by Dr. Keith Tribe (economic historian, Weber translator, and independent scholar with
Sussex University) on Tuesday, October 26th from 4:00-5:30 pm (Ross S 701, building # 28 on the map found here.)

Max Weber delivered the lecture “Wissenschaft als Beruf”/“Science as a Vocation” in November 1917 to students in Munich at the request of the local branch of the Free Students Union.  Dr. Tribe’s lecture will outline the broad political context, the background to this request, and then outline the structure of the lecture itself, drawing attention to the centrality of the Weberian concepts of “life orders” and “conduct of life”.  The purpose of the seminar is to show that, by focussing closely  on one single text of Weber, we can gain a clearer sense of how Weber constructed his arguments, and also identify conceptual threads that help us connect texts which are usually thought to belong to quite different genres of writing: historical sociology, methodology, cultural critique; and to quite different phases of his activity.

This event will be moderated by Prof. Terry Maley, a faculty affiliate of CCGES and member of York’s Political Science department.

All are welcome to this talk, but attendees are asked to register in advance at ccges@yorku.ca

Location: Ross S710
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm