Jan Rehmann

Max Weber: Modernisation As Passive Revolution: a Gramscian Analysis Jan Rehmann

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; 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'. Biographical Note: Jan Rehmann, Dr. phil., habil., teaches critical theories and social analysis at Union Theological Seminary in New York City and philosophy and the Free University in Berlin. He is co-editor of the "Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism" (HKWM) and the journal "Das Argument." His latest book is "Theories of Ideology. The Powers of Alienation and SubjectionTable of Contents: Preface to the English Edition Introduction to the First Edition (1998) PART ONE: THE MODEL OF AMERICANISM 1.1 Weber s 1904 Journey to America 1.2 The Ambivalent Fascination of Capitalism 1.3 Taylorism and Fordism in the Stockyards 1.4 The Alliance of Religion and Business 1.5 The Displacement of Religion from the State into Civil Society (Marx) 1.6 The Sect as Germ Cell of a Superior Model of Societalisation PART TWO: OUTLINES OF A FORDIST PROJECT OF MODERNISATION FOR GERMANY 2.1 The Programme of the 1895 Freiburg Inaugural Address 2.2 The Katheder Socialist Milieu 2.3 The Imperialist Critique of the Agrarian Class 2.4 A Homogenous Stock Market Elite with a Coherent Concept of Honour 2.5 The Critique of the Passive Revolution in Germany 2.5.1 The Entailed Estate 2.5.2 The Feudal Pretensions of the German Bourgeoisie 2.5.3 Caesarism, Bonapartism and Passive Revolution 2.6 Proposals for the Development of a Caesarism without a Caesar 2.6.1 The Shortcomings of a Value-Rational Critique of Weber 2.6.2 Universal Bureaucratisation as an Ineluctable Fate 2.6.3 Parliamentarism as a Superior Mechanism for the Selection of Leaders 2.6.4 The Construction of an Industrial Bloc of Capitalists and Workers 2.6.5 A New Model for the Assimilation of Hostile Groups into the State 2.7 The Integration of the Modern Industrial Proletariat into Bourgeois Society 2.7.1 Paul Gohre s Study on the Heterogeneity of Social Democratic Common Sense 2.7.2 Class Struggle as a Mode of Integration into Bourgeois Society 2.7.3 Linking Worker Honour to the Force Field of Nationalism 2.7.4 The Absorption of the Labour Aristocracy into the Bourgeoisie 2.7.5 A Graduated System of Corporatist Cooptation 2.8 The Return of the Charismatic Caesar to Modern Politics 2.8.1 The Verticalist Narrowing of the Concept of Charisma 2.8.2 Plebiscitary Charisma as Correlate of the Party Machine 2.8.3 From the Parliamentary Selection of Leaders to Plebiscitary Leader Democracy PART THREE: FROM THE NEO-KANTIAN PHILOSOPHY OF VALUES TO THE WEBERIAN THEORY OF SCIENCE 3.1 Formulating the Question in Terms of a Critical Theory of Ideology 3.1.1 A New Scientific Beginning on a Neo-Kantian Foundation 3.1.2 Controversies Surrounding the Relationship between Weber and Rickert 3.1.3 Paradigm Shift from the History of Ideas to a Critical Theory of Ideology 3.2 Theory of Reflection and Transcendental Idealism An Epistemological Rendezvous manque 3.2.1 The hiatus irrationalis between Concept and Reality 3.2.2 The Critique of the Subject/Object Dichotomy in the Theses on Feuerbach 3.2.3 The Sublation of the Kantian A Priori within the Concept of the Form of Thought 3.2.4 Gramsci s Critique of Objectivism 3.2.5 F. A. Lange as Secret School Leader ? 3.3 The Dualism of Law-Determined Nature and Value-Determined Culture 3.3.1 The Common German-Italian Front against Anglo-French Naturalism 3.3.2 The Neo-Kantian Taboo on Social Laws 3.3.3 Competing with Dilthey 3.3.4 The Displacement of History and Culture into the Sphere of Ideological Values 3.3.5 The Distance between Kant and Rickert 3.4 The Value Relation as Bearer of Freedom from Value Judgements 3.4.1 A Commonality with Marx s Standpoint of Science 3.4.2 The Transposition of Ideological Values into the Theoretical Value Relation 3.4.3 Ideological 'Value-Affectedness' as a Condition of Admission to Science 3.5 Farewell to the Abstract Heaven of Ideas Outlines of a Philosophical Paradigm Shift 3.5.1 The System of Values as Neo-Kantianism s Weakest Link 3.5.2 Croce s Ethico-Political History 3.5.3 The Turn from the Neo-Kantian Philosophy of Values to Neo-Hegelianism and Hermeneutics 3.5.4 The Lacuna in the Critique of Southwest German Neo-Kantianism 3.6 From the System of Values to the Clash of Values Weber s Reorganisation of the Neo-Kantian Philosophy of Values 3.6.1 The Ambivalence of the Value-Decisionist Concept of the Subject 3.6.2 The Limits of Weberian Historicisation 3.6.3 The Eternal Struggle over Values Weber and Nietzsche 3.7 Weber s Concept of Spheres of Value as a Modernisation of Ideological Societalisation 3.7.1 Ideology s Law of Complementarity 3.7.2 Weber s Concept of Spheres of Value and the German Power Pragma During the First World War 3.7.3 The Dichotomy of the Ethics of Conviction and the Ethics of Responsibility as an Ideological Pitfall 3.8 Ideal-Typical Conceptualisation s Blind Spot 3.8.1 The Ideal Type as a Deliberately One-Sided Conceptual Construct 3.8.2 The Rendezvous Manque with Marx 3.8.3 The Capitalist Orientation of Sociological Ideal Types PART FOUR: THE IDEAL-TYPICAL CONSTRUCTION OF AN ORIGINARY PROTESTANT-CAPITALIST SPIRIT 4.1 The Ethico-Political Stakes of a Purely Historical Account 4.2 The Basic Operation: Isolation of the 'Mental and Spiritual Particularities' 4.2.1 The Critique of Offenbacher s Comparison of Denominations 4.2.2 On the Social Profile of the Catholic Bloc 4.2.3 Weber's Departure from Offenbacher s Model of Interaction 4.2.4 Weber's Vacillation between a Strong and a Weak Thesis on Protestantism 4.2.5 The Ethical Mobilisation of Economic Subjects 4.3 From German Cultural Protestantism to Anglo-American Civil Religion 4.3.1 Cultural Protestantism as a Religious Ideology of Bourgeois Modernisation 4.3.2 Kulturkampf and the Debate on Inferiority 4.3.3 Protestant Culture as an Integrational Cipher in the Crisis of Orientation 4.3.4 Ritschl and Weber: A New Arrangement of Ethical Resources 4.3.5 Jellinek and Weber: Linking up with Anglo-American Mythistory 4.4 Weber and Simmel: The Psychological Deepening of Marxian Value Form Analysis 4.4.1 Benjamin Franklin's Ethos Utilitarian or Puritan? 4.4.2 From the Capitalist Standpoint of Valorisation to the Human Interest in Acquisition 4.4.3 The Formal Resemblance of Money and God 4.4.4 From the Ethos of Acquisition to the Work Ethos 4.4.5 Capitalist or Entrepreneurial Spirit? 4.5 Werner Sombart s Overcoming of Marxism 4.5.1 The Historical School as Digestive Science (Rosa Luxemburg) 4.5.2 The Further Development of Marxism as a Glorification of Capitalism 4.5.3 The Origin of Bourgeois Monetary Assets 4.5.4 Two Components of the Spirit of Capitalism 4.5.5 The Incorporation of the Proletariat into the National Community 4.6 Weber s Dislodgement of the Spirit of Capitalism from Capitalism 4.6.1 A Tautological Conceptual Arrangement 4.6.2 The Exclusion of Sombart s Adventure Capitalism 4.6.3 Purging the Capitalist Spirit of the Materiality of Capitalist Domination 4.6.4 The Detachment of the Spirit from the Economic Form 4.7 Weber's Perspective: Capitalist Spirit as a Popular Mass Movement 4.7.1 Renaissance Man or Reformation Man? 4.7.2 The Interminability of the Controversy on the Spiritual Origin of Capitalism 4.7.3 The Hidden Theme: The Bourgeoisie s Popular-National Achievement of Hegemony 4.7.4 Outlook: The Social Components of Weber's Orientalist Sociology of Religion Appendix Bibliography Index of Names Index of Subjects"