If the Only Thing You Remember About Max Weber Is

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Multiple Choice

If the only thing you remember about Max Weber is that he described modern people as being trapped in an "iron cage," which of the following quotes from the social theorist Marshall Berman would you think describes his work?

• A) "not only its breathless pace, its vibrant energy, its imaginative richness, but also its fast and drastic shifts in tone and inflection"
• B) "alive to its possibilities, affirmative even in their radical negations, playful and ironic"
• C) "It is a voice that knows pain and dread, but believes in its power to come through."
• D) "Modern man as a subject-capable of response, judgment, and action in and on the world-has disappeared."
• E) "a vision of modernism as an unending permanent revolution against the totality of modern existence"

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