{"title":"Modern rationalities of the political: From Foucault to Weber","authors":"Cathérine Colliot-Thélène","doi":"10.15543/MWS/2009/1-2/9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15543/MWS/2009/1-2/9","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The work of Max Weber and Michel Foucault is compared in terms of the rationalities of the political. Foucault's treatment of Weber is outlined. Conduct and life conduct are examined as are liberalism, the state, economic rationality and juridico-political rationality. Foucault's governmentality is contrasted with bureaucratic rationality and rulership.","PeriodicalId":103306,"journal":{"name":"Max Weber Studies","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125496005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reinterpreting Science as a Vocation","authors":"Tong Zhang","doi":"10.1353/max.2022.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/max.2022.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Weber's 'science as a vocation' has often been viewed as a therapeutic concept with no functional significance in the fully bureaucratized and professionalized modern science. However, development in the philosophy of science in the last century, especially the Kuhn thesis of the discontinuity of scientific progress and the Duhem-Quine thesis of underdetermination, shows that Weber's distinction between science as a vocation and science as a profession (career) can potentially answer one of the oldest questions in science studies: What makes scientific breakthroughs possible?","PeriodicalId":103306,"journal":{"name":"Max Weber Studies","volume":"2016 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133865041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Note about the 'anxious bench'","authors":"M. Cortes","doi":"10.15543/MWS/2014/1/7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15543/MWS/2014/1/7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":103306,"journal":{"name":"Max Weber Studies","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125803960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Rationalities of Law between Formalism, Empiricism and Rematerialisation","authors":"Michel Coutu","doi":"10.1353/max.2021.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/max.2021.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":103306,"journal":{"name":"Max Weber Studies","volume":"680 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132484880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Weber overcame the problems of neoclassical economics. The continuing relevance of his analysis in the neoliberal context","authors":"Omar Kassem","doi":"10.1353/max.2021.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/max.2021.0016","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The rational choice turn in neoclassical economics sought the authority of Weberian methodology but failed to heed its warnings. Its ambition to shape a science that would arbitrate the public good eventually broke down, and all that survived in the ensuing ideological debate was neoliberal dogma. While Weber saw the benefits of neoclassical economics, his methodology followed a different path in the construction of an ideal-type of the modern capitalist enterprise. This becomes a tool of political economic analysis that establishes an ‘institutional context of accumulation’ on which to base analysis of formal rationality, the results of which inform the path to be taken by the sub-discipline of an evaluative ‘critical economics’. The actualization of neoliberal dogma in a new social order in the 1970s and the particular form of monopolistic rentier capitalism its imperial structure takes, facilitate a new ‘rentier politics’ that gives Weber's construction acute analytical relevance.","PeriodicalId":103306,"journal":{"name":"Max Weber Studies","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115854290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Max Weber. Stationen und Impulse einer intellektuellen Biographie by Gangolf Hübinger (review)","authors":"Sérgio Da Mata","doi":"10.1353/max.2021.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/max.2021.0023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":103306,"journal":{"name":"Max Weber Studies","volume":"06 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127243615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Askese und Devotion. Das rituelle System der TerÄpanth ÅvetÄmbara Jaina by Peter Flügel (review)","authors":"Sam Whimster","doi":"10.1353/max.2021.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/max.2021.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":103306,"journal":{"name":"Max Weber Studies","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126250458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Was Weber Really Wrong? A Comment on Some Recent Empirical Studies on Economic Growth","authors":"Tong Zhang","doi":"10.1353/max.2021.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/max.2021.0022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In the last two decades, there have been two influential papers in empirical economic growth, Becker and Woessmann (2009) and Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2001), which explicitly or implicitly claim that Weber's thesis has been refuted by empirical evidence. This paper argues that their alleged refutation of Weber is achieved by serious distortions and reductions of Weber's thesis combined with a sequence of unsubstantiated extrapolations.","PeriodicalId":103306,"journal":{"name":"Max Weber Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114958416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}