Max Weber and the American nations
the two 'ideas of nation'
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.33956/tensoesmundiais.v9i17.503Keywords:
Max Weber, Nation, Sociology, Invention, EssentialismAbstract
The article reviews the two perspectives on the ‘idea of the nation’ in the work of Max Weber. While his contributions to Sociology favor an ‘inventionist’ strategy, in its political interventions the strategy is mainly that of an ‘essentialist’ type. Following the main components of the ‘idea of the nation’, the paper presents two
cases of American nations which are examples of both of the author’s analytical perspectives.
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2018-10-10
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Max Weber and the American nations: the two ’ideas of nation’. Tensões Mundiais, [S. l.], v. 9, n. 17, p. 17–38, 2018. DOI: 10.33956/tensoesmundiais.v9i17.503. Disponível em: https://revistas.uece.br/index.php/tensoesmundiais/article/view/503. Acesso em: 12 apr. 2026.
