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The spiritual roots of our strange relationship to work
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The Paradox of Work
For Weber, there are two senses in which we could regard work as, on the one hand, of calling. That paradox is the one that he embraced. It was our predicament as modern human beings to live through that contradiction. The fact that we might say, I feel called to be a scholar of American studies in Europe proves the point that we have internalized the secular relic of a once sacred way of thinking about our fate and freedom.
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