Article: Max Weber in America.

In the summer of 1903, the Heidelberg sociologist Max Weber had a visit from Hugo Munsterberg, a Harvard professor known for his pioneering work in the new field of applied psychology. Dr. Munsterberg was promoting an international gathering of scholars from many disciplines, to be held in St. Louis, Missouri, the next year. He invited Weber to attend, and to present a paper on Germany's rural community.

Weber, then thirty-nine, had not been well. He had suffered a nervous collapse five years earlier, had been institutionalized at intervals, and had lived for a time in Italy in the hope of regaining his intellectual stamina. He was still unable to teach, but by ...

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