Max Weber: Modernisation as Passive Revolution: A Gramscian Analysis

By Jan Rehmann

Book Overview

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 ?bergang zum Fordismus".

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004271791
• ISBN13: 9789004271791
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"