A centuries-old dispute about the nature of power between classics of political thought such as Machiavelli and Montesquieu, Hobbes and Schmitt, does not lose its relevance today. To understand the intricacies and nuances of this conversation will help one of the leading experts in political philosophy Alexander Filippov. 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 author of a number of in-depth studies of modern politics. Weber became famous primarily for his fundamental writings, in which, in particular, he proposed the systematics of sociological concepts, among which one of the central places is occupied by the concepts of power and domination. In the works collected in this volume, theoretical and methodological work is combined with concepts, an actual analysis of party and political life and a wide historical and critical representation of the evolution of the profession of politics in the West in the modern era, the era of rational bureaucracy and the charisma of leaders. This volume in the compilation of Alexander Filippov includes the works "Parliament and Government in the New Germany" . "Politics as a vocation and profession" and "Basic sociological concepts" .