Max Weber’s critique of the German historicist tradition

Abstract

Max Weber (1864-1920) is perhaps the classic sociology author who paid the most attention to the methodological problems of the social sciences. And although his methodological essays can sometimes be
difficult to understand, they do not cease to fascinate specialists for their intellectual acuity. The following article analyzes a somewhat
neglected facet of Weber’s methodological essays: his criticism of German historicism.