Max Weber, modernisation as passive revolution a Gramscian analysis / [electronic resource] :
by Jan Rehmann ; translated by Max Henniger.
- Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, c2015.
- 1 online resource (457 p.).
- Historical Materialism Book Series, v. 78 1570-1522 ; .
- Historical materialism book series ; v. 78. .
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Preface to the English Edition; Introduction to the First Edition (1998); Part 1 The Model of Americanism; Chapter 1 Weber's 1904 Journey to America; Chapter 2 The Ambivalent Fascination of Capitalism; Chapter 3 Taylorism and Fordism in the Stockyards; Chapter 4 The Alliance of Religion and Business; Chapter 5 The 'Displacement' of Religion from the State into Civil Society (Marx); Chapter 6 The Sect as Germ Cell of a Superior Model of Societalisation; Part 2 Outlines of a Fordist Project of Modernisation for Germany; Chapter 7 The Programme of the 1895 Freiburg Inaugural Address. Chapter 8 The Katheder Socialist MilieuChapter 9 The Imperialist Critique of the Agrarian Class; Chapter 10 A Homogenous Stock Market Elite with a Coherent Concept of Honour; Chapter 11 The Critique of the 'Passive Revolution' in Germany; Chapter 12 Proposals for the Development of a 'Caesarism without a Caesar'; Chapter 13 The Integration of the Modern Industrial Proletariat into Bourgeois Society; Chapter 14 The Return of the Charismatic 'Caesar' to Modern Politics; Part 3 From the Neo-Kantian Philosophy of Values to the Weberian 'Theory of Science' Chapter 15 Formulating the Question in Terms of a Critical Theory of IdeologyChapter 16 Theory of Reflection and Transcendental Idealism-An Epistemological Rendezvous manqué; Chapter 17 The Dualism of Law-Determined 'Nature' and Value-Determined 'Culture'; Chapter 18 The 'Value Relation' as Bearer of 'Freedom from Value Judgements'; Chapter 19 Farewell to the Abstract Heaven of Ideas-Outlines of a Philosophical Paradigm Shift; Chapter 20 From the System of Values to the 'Clash of Values'-Weber's Reorganisation of the Neo-Kantian Philosophy of Values. Chapter 21 Weber's Concept of Spheres of Value as a Modernisation of Ideological SocietalisationChapter 22 Ideal-Typical Conceptualisation's Blind Spot; Part 4 The Ideal-Typical Construction of an Originary Protestant-Capitalist Spirit; Chapter 23 The Ethico-Political Stakes of a 'Purely Historical Account'; Chapter 24 The Basic Operation: Isolation of the 'Mental and Spiritual Particularities'; Chapter 25 From German 'Cultural Protestantism' to Anglo-American 'Civil Religion'; Chapter 26 Weber and Simmel: The Psychological 'Deepening' of Marxian Value Form Analysis. Chapter 27 Werner Sombart's 'Overcoming' of MarxismChapter 28 Weber's Dislodgement of the 'Spirit of Capitalism' from Capitalism; Chapter 29 Weber's Perspective: Capitalist Spirit as a Popular Mass Movement; Chapter 30 Outlook: The Social Components of Weber's Orientalist Sociology of Religion; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index.
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Rehmann provides a comprehensive Gramscian socio-analysis of Max Weber's political and intellectual position in the ideological network of his time. He deciphers Weber as an organic intellectual who constructs a new bourgeois hegemony in the transition to 'Fordism'.