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Max Weber: German sociologist, author of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, 1864 to 1920.

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization, and, above all, by the "disenchantment of the world."

Max Weber · The source reads: “The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization, and, above all, by the "disenchantment of the world." Precisely the ultimate and most sublime values have retreated from public life either into the transcendental realm of mystic life or into the brotherliness of direct and personal human relations.” · Science as a Vocation (1918)

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