The centuries-old dispute about the nature of power between such classics of political thought as Machiavelli and Montesquieu, Hobbes and Schmitt does not lose its relevance today. One of the leading experts in political philosophy, Alexander Filippov, will help you understand the subtleties and nuances of this conversation. Max Weber is one of the greatest political thinkers of the 20th century. He actively participated in the political life of Germany, was a prominent publicist and the author of a number of in-depth studies of modern politics. Weber became famous primarily for his fundamental works, in which, in particular, he proposed a taxonomy of sociological concepts, among which one of the central places is occupied by the concepts of power and domination. The works collected in this volume combine theoretical and methodological work with concepts, current analysis of party political life and a broad historical-critical presentation of the evolution of the political profession in the West in the modern era, the era of rational bureaucracy and charisma of leaders. This volume was compiled by Alexander Filippov includes the works "Parliament and Government in the New Germany". “Politics as a vocation and profession” and “Basic sociological concepts.”