Max Weber’s much-commented speech of January 1919 on ‘Politik als Beruf’ is analysed in this article in a double context – on the one hand, in the concrete political context of the months of January and February 1919; on the other hand, in connection with his major political treatises, especially Parliament and Government in Germany under a New Political Order. This leads to a reassessment of Weber’s concept of the professional politician, as well as to the insight that the frequent translation of the title of his lecture to ‘Politics as a Vocation’ does not touch the core of Weber’s view of politics in parliamentary democracies.

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“作为职业的政治”：对 1919 年德国民主化的贡献？

本文在双重背景下分析了马克斯·韦伯 1919 年 1 月关于“政治斗争”的备受评论的演讲——一方面，在 1919 年 1 月和 2 月的具体政治背景下；另一方面，关于他的主要政治论文，特别是新政治秩序下的德国议会和政府。这导致了对韦伯职业政治家概念的重新评估，以及他的演讲标题经常被翻译为“作为一种职业的政治”并没有触及韦伯议会民主政治观的核心的洞察力。