
Weber on Leadership
Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS
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The Doubleness of Professional Politics
Sovebe's lecture was in part a defence of the idea of professional politics, but delivered in the double language of the modern state. Weber tries to take us inside the mind and the heart of the leader. To be a professional is to be more than a professional. To do it as a job is to supply it with a vision. If you are one of the few who is called to political leadership. The final big difference between weber's vision and hobbs's is that weber does something that hobbs never did and probably wouldn't have known how to do. A wall faber said that modern politics has to be done with the head and the heart.
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