Titlebook: Max Weber and Postmodern Theory; Rationalization vers Nicholas Gane Book 2002 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limite

Haphazard

新手

Introductionm in the late 1980s and early 1990s effectively marked the decline of Marxism as a dominant paradigm of social theory.. This sharp collapse of the Marxist orthodoxy vindicated Weber’s analysis of modernity, and, in particular, his critique of Marx. Here, one may recall Weber’s critique of historical

胶水

Rationalization and Disenchantment, I: From the Origins of Religion to the Death of Gode West in terms of two interconnected processes: the rise and spread of Occidental (instrumental) rationalism (the process of . and the accompanying . of religious superstition and myth.. More precisely, it treats Western culture as the product of two key developmental transitions (Schroeder, 1987,

hangdog

Rationalization and Disenchantment, II: the Differentiation and De-differentiation of Modern Culturethe general movement of nihilism in the West (see Chapter 2), for with the ‘death’ of God worldly values proliferate, separate out and are drawn into endless conflict with one another. This process leads to the formation of a world torn by an infinite number of value-conflicts, for ‘rational’ (scien

反复拉紧

领先

The Ethical Irrationality of the World: ‘Politics as a Vocation’ This vision reminds us that the rationalization of the world is not accompanied by a movement towards human happiness, ‘progress’, and freedom, but may in fact preclude the realization of these ideals. The previous chapter analysed one possible route of resistance to this process, namely the pursui

使成波状

hallow

几何学家

酷热

Weber, Baudrillard and the Erotic Spherepostmodern science and aesthetics (Chapter 7), and second, through assessment of Foucault’s project of genealogical transfiguration (Chapter 8). The present chapter addresses a further strategy through which such resistance may be possible, namely that of re-enchantment. It is argued that this strat