Título en español.

Abstract

In this essay, I explore what I believe to be the fundamental issues of Max Weber‘s social and political theory. In doing so, my approach is respectful of its profound richness yet does not evade its also profound contradictions. However, one of the main contentions of this article is that such contradictions are in part product of the dialectical relation between Weber‘s thought and his unique socio-historical circumstances. Weber‘s epistemological and political tensions are also symptomatic of the modern condition which he sought to narrate and interpret. Weber‘s thought continues to be stimulating for Social Scientists since it captures better than others the fundamental and apparently irresolvable paradoxes of our own cultural historic condition.