Max Weber: Modernisation as Passive Revolution: A Gramscian Analysis: 78 (Historical Materialism Book) - Hardcover

Rehmann, Jan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004271791 ISBN 13: 9789004271791

Publisher: Brill, 2014

Synopsis

Basing his research on Gramsci's theory of hegemony, Rehmann provides a comprehensive socio-analysis of Max Weber's political and intellectual position in the ideological network of his time. Max Weber: Modernisation as Passive Revolution shows that, even though Weber presents his science as 'value-free', he is best understood as an organic intellectual of the bourgeoisie, who has the mission of providing his class with an intense ethico-political education. Viewed as a whole, his writings present a new model for bourgeois hegemony in the transition to 'Fordism'. Weber is both a sharp critic of a 'passive revolution' in Germany tying the bourgeois class to the interests of the agrarian class, and a proponent of a more modern version of passive revolution, which would foreclose a socialist revolution by the construction of an industrial bloc consisting of the bourgeoisie and labour aristocracy.

(c) 1998 Argument Verlag GmbH, Hamburg. Translated from German "Max Weber: Modernisierung als passive Revolution. Kontextstudien zu Politik Philosophie und Religion im Übergang zum Fordismus".

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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'.

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Jan Rehmann has given us a marvelous gift."
Cornel West
My own intellectual and political conviction is that we need the concept of ideology all the more urgently today, when its use has been stigmatized by contemporary philosophy. Rehmann's book provides a detailed and indispensable account of its history, the various modern versions of the concept and the debates which have swirled around it: just what we need to make a new beginning!"
Fredric Jameson
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Praise for Theories of Ideology
-Jan Rehmann has given us a marvelous gift.-
--Cornel West
-My own intellectual and political conviction is that we need the concept of ideology all the more urgently today, when its use has been stigmatized by contemporary philosophy. Rehmann's book provides a detailed and indispensable account of its history, the various modern versions of the concept and the debates which have swirled around it: just what we need to make a new beginning!-
--Fredric Jameson
Praise for Theories of Ideology

"Jan Rehmann has given us a marvelous gift."
--Cornel West

"My own intellectual and political conviction is that we need the concept of ideology all the more urgently today, when its use has been stigmatized by contemporary philosophy. Rehmann's book provides a detailed and indispensable account of its history, the various modern versions of the concept and the debates which have swirled around it: just what we need to make a new beginning!"
--Fredric Jameson

Praise for Theories of Ideology

"Jan Rehmann has given us a marvelous gift."
--Cornel West

"My own intellectual and political conviction is that we need the concept of ideology all the more urgently today, when its use has been stigmatized by contemporary philosophy. Rehmann's book provides a detailed and indispensable account of its history, the various modern versions of the concept and the debates which have swirled around it: just what we need to make a new beginning!"
--Fredric Jameson

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 9004271791
• ISBN 13: 9789004271791
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 460