Analysis Quote by Clifford Geertz

“Ethnographer Clifford Geertz says: “Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take…

— Valerie Raleigh Yow

Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.

— Clifford Geertz

“A completely different aspect, however, the thoroughly incommensurable one, lies in the imposition of accepting that the torso sees me while I observe it…

— Peter Sloterdijk

Max Weber was right in subscribing to the view that one need not be Caesar in order to understand Caesar. But there is a…

— Robert K. Merton

“Thomas Hobbes said that man is a wolve for anothe one. It seems to me that this became the basic foundation ideology for the…

— Steinar Stjernø

“If, as Max Weber contended, science, modernity and rationalism have disenchanted the world and swept it clean of gods, spirits and magic (or, at…

— Cameron Adams

“I think, if people actually read Calvin, rather than read Max Weber, he would be rebranded. He is a very respectable thinker. And one…

— Marilynne Robinson

In a democratic society, as Max Weber said, what is possible is only possible because some people have demanded the impossible. The abolitionists helped…

— Eric Foner

“But, as the conflict-studies scholar Jayne Docherty argues, the F.B.I.’s approach was doomed from the outset. In “Learning Lessons from Waco”—one of the very…

— Anonymous

“It caused my opposition to any ideologies—Marxist, Fascist, National Socialist, what you will—because they were incompatible with science in the rational sense of critical…

— eric voegelin

“Max Weber, who we met in the previous chapter, provided the most famous and widely accepted definition of the state, identifying it with the…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“From Hobbes’s theory of the sovereign ruling by authority to Max Weber 250 years later, defining the state in terms of a monopoly of…

— Kenneth Minogue