- Professor Scaff recently served as Dean of the College of
Liberal Arts. Before coming to Wayne State, he was Chair of the Department of Political
Science at Penn State University. He also has held appointments at the
University of Arizona and several German universities. His fields of
specialization include political and social theory, modern European political
and social thought, the philosophy and history of the social sciences, and the
comparative politics of Western Europe. He is an authority on Max Weber.
His book, Fleeing the Iron Cage: Culture, Politics, and Modernity in
the Thought of Max Weber, has been published in several languages.
He is author of dozens of articles and book chapters on Max
Weber and German economic, social, and political
thought. He teaches a course on Politics and the Order
of Terror.
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