LA SOCIOLOGIA WEBERIANA E L’EUROPA: ALCUNE CONSIDERAZIONI PROSPETTICHE ATTRAVERSO L’ANALISI DELLA PRIMA RICEZIONE ITALIANA

Aim of the essay is to show how the first Italian reception of Max Weber was able to anticipate many points later highlighted by the «Max Weber Renaissance», which during the Eighties has amended the «Weberian Canon» that took shape in the previous decades. Starting from the Forties up to the beginning of the Eighties many authors and books, as diverse as they are, had been nonetheless able to avoid major shortcomings stemming from Marxist and Parsons-inspired receptions of Weber’s oeuvre. Through the analytical review of the first Italian reception, a different image of Weberian sociology will appear, at which center a distinctive mode of questioning and a specific principle for selecting the material of investigation stand, unveiling the «European» problematic – of its science and its humanity – from which originates.