The Barbarism of Reason : Max Weber and the Twilight of Enlightenment.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (321 pages)
- Heritage Series .
- Heritage Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- Part I: Reason and Disenchantment -- 2 Max Weber and the Legacy of Critical Idealism -- 3 Max Weber and the Modern State -- 4 Nietzsche and Weber: When Does Reason Become Power? -- Part II: Politics, Time, and Bourgeois Modernity -- 5 Max Weber and the Liberal Political Tradition -- 6 Max Weber and the Bourgeoisie -- 7 The Politics of Time: Subjectivity and Modernity in Max Weber -- Part III: The Dilemmas of Rationalization -- 8 Mannheim and the Early Frankfurt School: The Weber Reception of Rival Traditions of Critical Sociology -- 9 The Comedy of Enlightenment: Weber, Habermas, and the Critique of Reification -- 10 The World Disenchanted, and the Return of Gods and Demons -- 11 The Revenge of the Sacred: Technology and Re-enchantment -- 12 Max Weber and Post-Positivist Social Theory -- 13 Max Weber: Legitimation, Method, and the Politics of Theory -- Notes on Contributors.
Asher Horowitz and Terry Maley present a collection of essays tracing the contemporary significance of Weber's work for the tradition of Enlightenment political thought and its critiques.