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THE BARBARISM OF REASON MAX WEBER AND THE TWILIGHT! OF ENLIGHTEN MENT EDITED BY ASHER HOROWITZ AND TERRY MALEY Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/barbarismofreasoOOOOunse THE BARBARISM OF REASON Max Weber and the Twilight of Enlightenment The recent renewal of interest in Max Weber evidences an attempt to enlist his thought in the service of a renewed dream of Enlightenment individual¬ ism. Yet he was the first twentieth-century thinker to fully appreciate the pervasiveness and ambiguity of rationalization which threatened to under¬ mine the hopes of the Enlightenment. Asher Horowitz and Terry Maley present a collection of essays tracing the contemporary significance of Weber’s work for the tradition of Enlight¬ enment political thought and its critiques. In its critical inquiry into Weber’s thought, The Barbarism of Reason continues the exploration of the limits and prospects of politics in a rationalizing society. The first section comprises a set of both historical and philosophical reflections on the political implications of Weber’s central concepts. The second section examines the institutional and historical context that framed Weber’s inquiries into structures of the modern mode of domination, as well as his understanding of the nature of the modern state. Among the topics examined are Weber’s strategic intervention in the development of the liberal theory of the state, the theoretical and pre-theoretical roots of his construction of the subject, and the schizophrenic structure of modern subjectivity. The third and last section attempts to trace the vicissitudes of Weber’s problematic assumptions concerning rationalization, power, and disenchantment through some of the most important responses to his work in the twentieth century. asher horowitz is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at York University. He is the author of Rousseau, Nature, and History and, with G. Horowitz, Everywhere They Are in Chains: Political Thought from Rousseau to Marx. terry maley is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. ASHER HOROWITZ AND TERRY MALEY, EDITORS The Barbarism of Reason: Max Weber and the Twilight of Enlightenment UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto Buffalo London •a, W» £> © University of Toronto Press Incorporated 1994 Toronto Buffalo London Printed in Canada isbn 0-8020-0558-6 (cloth) isbn 0-8020-6980-0 (paper) e Printed on acid-free paper Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Main entry under title: The Barbarism of reason : Max Weber and the twilight of enlightenment Includes index. isbn 0-8020-0558-6 (bound) isbn 0-8020-6980-0 (pbk.) 1. Weber, Max, 1864-1920. 1. Horowitz, Asher, 1950- • n. Maley, Terry. B336i-Z7 B37 1994 3°i'-092 094-931820-5 University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its publishing program of the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council. Contents Acknowledgments vii 1 Introduction 3 ASHER HOROWITZ and TERRY MALEY Part I Reason and Disenchantment 2 Max Weber and the Legacy of Critical Idealism 21 CHRISTIAN LENHARDT 3 Max Weber and the Modern State 49 FRED DALLMAYR 4 Nietzsche and Weber: When Does Reason Become Power? * 68 MARK E. WARREN Part II Politics, Time, and Bourgeois Modernity 5 Max Weber and the Liberal Political Tradition 99 DAVID BEETHAM 6 Max Weber and the Bourgeoisie 113 TRACY B. STRONG 7 The Politics of Time: Subjectivity and Modernity in Max Weber 139 TERRY MALEY vi Contents Part III The Dilemmas of Rationalization 8 Mannheim and the Early Frankfurt School: The Weber Reception of Rival Traditions of Critical Sociology 169 RAYMOND MORROW 9 The Comedy of Enlightenment: Weber, Habermas, and the Critique of Reification 195 ASHER HOROWITZ 10 The World Disenchanted, and the Return of Gods and Demons » 223 ALKIS KONTOS 11 The Revenge of the Sacred: Technology and Re-enchantment * 248 GILBERT G. GERMAIN 12 Max Weber and Post-Positivist Social Theory 267 SUSAN HERMAN 13 Max Weber: Legitimation, Method, and the Politics of Theory 287 SHELDON S. WOLIN Notes on Contributors 3ii
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