The Concept of 'Paradox' in the Work of Max Weber

This article argues that Max Weber's use of the concept of paradox has been relatively under-examined in the secondary literature. It argues that there is a highly distinctive form of paradox that Weber uses extensively throughout his writings. Weber deploys this term in two main senses: as a universal condition of human action; and as a specific way of understanding the logic of western modernity. The article suggests that this latter sense lies at the heart of Weber's understanding of agency in modernity

Action (physics · Agency (philosophy · Epistemology · Modernity · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory

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