Postscript.

The article focuses on the works of sociologist Max Weber. It evaluates Weber as an emblematic figure, even as a personalized, polemical intention, but within a group of problems that go beyond the facts of his biography and axe in fact more alive for us than for him. Only on the basis of these general methodological assumptions is it possible to understand how useless it is to pose the problem of human consciousness, and the possibility of transforming it. Explicitly beginning with the interpretation of Weber, professor Carlo Thllio Altan has put before students of the social sciences a number of intelligent observations. They concern the problem of otherness, and what he calls the universals of the human condition. The connection between the macrosociological level of analysis and microsociological, empirical elaboration is not the only basic methodological problem of sociology today. It involves, also, a group of operative possibilities, which, logically, may tend toward the total liberation of man by way of projects directed through social initiative, which can involve him at the level of his immediate experience and connect him with his neighbor with the tension of middle-range utopias in which news and history merge and the impulse to a new relational dialectic is born.