Max Weber and Democratic Politics / Peter Breiner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Breiner, Peter, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In this work, Peter Breiner explores the implications of Max Weber's political sociology for political judgment and democratic theory. In the process, he rejects what is problematic and retains what is valuable in the theorist's political thought and then uses the results to elaborate upon and extend democratic theory. The author analyzes the tensions between the subjective and objective dimensions of Weber's logic of rationality in his methodology, his reconstruction of economic theory, his views on political practice and value conflict, and his understanding of the demands that the "business" of politics imposes upon political ethics.The book situates Weber in relation to the great political theorists of the past (Thucydides, Machiavelli, Rousseau, Gramsci) as well as engaging some of the most important Weberian scholarship. Rigorous, tightly argued, and concise, the volume will interest both political and social theorists: the former because of the focus on judgment and participatory democracy and the latter for the author's thorough and novel treatment of Weber.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations of Max Weber's Works

Introduction

1. Social Science and the Interpretation of Means-Ends Rationality

2. The Sociological Clarification of Action: Weberian Political Judgment

3. The Political Logic of Economics and the Economic Logic of Politics: Marginal Utility versus Prudential Political Economy

4. The Reason of Modern Politics: Politics as a Business, Politics as a Vocation

5. Political Ethics and the Fear of Mass Politics: The Partial Uses of Impartiality

6. Weberian Political Ethics, Moral Luck, and the Problems of Participatory Democracy

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

1-5017-3351-6

OCLC:

1110719437