Abstract
The authors of this article explore the biographic vicissitudes of Max Weber during the 1890's. These vicissitudes are taken up here as a model of the conflict resulting from a dual, lived expe rience both intellectual and moral. On the one hand, the lived experience of modernity, represented for Weber by the fundamen tal characteritics of German-national, liberal culture and on the other hand the moral lived experience, by the activities of the churches faced with the social question.