Joshua Derman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1485694 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua Derman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua |
| FAMILY NAME | Derman |
| SIGNATURE | DERMAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2041-7586 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Max Weber at 100
The year 2020 marked the centennial of the death of Max Weber, the German sociologist, scholar of world religions, economic historian, social philosopher, and theoretician of modern political life. This volume presents a collection of essays on the legacy and relevance of his thought. The authors, an international array of distinguished scholars, are drawn from various disciplines—philosophy, political science, intellectual history, and sociology…
Max Weber after 100 Years
The editors’ introduction to Max Weber at 100 surveys Weber’s career and the profound impact of his thought on the development of the modern humanities and social sciences. It traces the networks of his reception and identifies the key aspects of his oeuvre that have engaged generations of admirers and critics: his theses about the emergence of modern capitalism, his comparative historical analysis, his methodological and philosophical writings, …
Max Weber, Imperialism, and the Fate of Globalization
This chapter reconstructs Weber’s theoretical understanding of the global economy and its relationship to imperialism at the turn of the twentieth century. Competing interpretations of Weber tend to depict him, in binary fashion, as either a proponent of imperial autarky or a defender of liberal globalization. A close analysis of Weber’s 1897 rebuttal of the economist Karl Oldenberg shows that neither interpretation does justice to the nuances of…
The Atlantic Realists
Prophet of a Partitioned World
Historical scholarship on “great spaces,” a central concept in the political thought of Nazi Germany, has previously focused on legal debates while neglecting important economic contexts. The journalist Ferdinand Fried deserves to be considered one of the major economic theorists of “great spaces” in the Weimar, Nazi, and early postwar eras. Fried argued that the world economy was inexorably passing from globalization through economic nationalism…
Max Weber and the Idea of the Occident
Max Weber believed that the Occident had produced a set of unique institutions whose distinctiveness could be characterized using ideal types that accentuated their type and degree of “rationalism.” The rise of modern capitalism, one element within this set, had been enabled by the presence of other elements, he famously argued, none of which had indigenously arisen anywhere else in the world. This chapter reconstructs Weber’s idea of the Occiden…
E lizabeth S. G oodstein . Georg Simmel and the Disciplinary Imaginary
What is the worst fate that can befall a famous intellectual—to be forgotten by posterity, or to be celebrated but misunderstood? According to Elizabeth S. Goodstein in Georg Simmel and the Disciplinary Imaginary, the German philosopher Georg Simmel has suffered a double indignity. Once hailed for his pioneering efforts to define sociology as the study of associational forms, Simmel was canonized by social scientists who expressed little understa…
Max Weber in der Welt
278 Max Weber Studies© Max Weber Studies 2016. Terry Horgan and Matjaž Potrč’s argument that there is only one world, which is blob- or jello-like with enough internal variability to allow for statements that are true in the sense that they are assertable under ‘contextually operative semantic standards’,20 but have no real parts to which the semantic distinctions correspond, is more austere and physicalist than Gabriel’s, but ends up with the sa…
Max Weber in Politics and Social Thought
"Max Weber is widely regarded as one of the foundational thinkers of the twentieth century. But how did this reclusive German scholar manage to leave such an indelible mark on modern political and social thought? Max Weber in Politics and Social Thought is the first comprehensive account of Weber's wide-ranging impact on both German and American intellectuals. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Joshua Derman illuminates what Weber meant to conte…
Beyond the Other Shore
For over half a century, the American transformation of German philosophy and social thought has been a major theme of modern intellectual history. The main protagonists of this “cultural migration,” as the story traditionally has been told, were German-speaking scholars and writers who, fleeing Hitler's Europe, brought their erudition and indigenous methodologies to American shores. But beyond this beachhead lies a vast and unfamiliar terrain fo…
Max Weber in Politics and Social Thought
Max Weber is widely regarded as one of the foundational thinkers of the twentieth century. But how did this reclusive German scholar manage to leave such an indelible mark on modern political and social thought? Max Weber in Politics and Social Thought is the first comprehensive account of Weber's wide-ranging impact on both German and American intellectuals. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Joshua Derman illuminates what Weber meant to contem…
Max Weber in politics and social thought
Max Weber is widely regarded as one of the foundational thinkers of the twentieth century. But how did this reclusive German scholar manage to leave such an indelible mark on modern political and social thought? Max Weber in Politics and Social Thought is the first comprehensive account of Weber's wide-ranging impact on both German and American intellectuals. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Joshua Derman illuminates what Weber meant to contem…
Carl Schmitt on land and sea
Carl Schmitt (1888-1985), one of the leading conservative legal thinkers of the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany, is best known today for his critique of liberalism. Between the late 1930s and mid-1950s, Schmitt wrote numerous articles and two books addressing the mythical and geopolitical significance of land and sea. In recent years, these texts have begun to attract attention from historians as well as theorists. This article reconstructs the …
Carl Schmitt, humanity and rights
Carl Schmitt, humanity and rights: Early modern readings, contemporary appraisals." History of European Ideas, 37(2), p. 153
Max Weber and Charisma
Charisma, a buzzword beloved by sociologists, political scientists, psychologists, self-help gurus, and scholars of celebrity, is in its modern secular usage a concept of very recent origin. Between 1915 and 1922 the German scholar Max Weber introduced it into the vocabulary of the social sciences. Despite the vast literature that scholars have devoted to Weber's concept of charisma, no concerted effort has been made to understand its transatlant…
Skepticism and Faith
This article elucidates an important reason for Max Weber's popularity among German intellectuals during the Weimar Republic: for different interpreters, Weber's anti-utopianism came to signify radically different attitudes towards the modern world. My aim is to construct an original typology of these interpretations and, in the process, to explain why Weber was able to make such divergent impressions. His reception provides a case study for unde…
Max Weber and Charisma
Charisma, a buzzword beloved by sociologists, political scientists, psychologists, self-help gurus, and scholars of celebrity, is in its modern secular usage a concept of very recent origin. Between 1915 and 1922 the German scholar Max Weber introduced it into the vocabulary of the social sciences. Despite the vast literature that scholars have devoted to Weber's concept of charisma, no concerted effort has been made to understand its transatlant…
Carl Schmitt on land and sea
Carl Schmitt (1888-1985), one of the leading conservative legal thinkers of the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany, is best known today for his critique of liberalism. Between the late 1930s and mid-1950s, Schmitt wrote numerous articles and two books addressing the mythical and geopolitical significance of land and sea. In recent years, these texts have begun to attract attention from historians as well as theorists. This article reconstructs the …
Skepticism and Faith
This article elucidates an important reason for Max Weber's popularity among German intellectuals during the Weimar Republic: for different interpreters, Weber's anti-utopianism came to signify radically different attitudes towards the modern world. My aim is to construct an original typology of these interpretations and, in the process, to explain why Weber was able to make such divergent impressions. His reception provides a case study for unde…
Skepticism and Faith
This article elucidates an important reason for Max Weber's popularity among German intellectuals during the Weimar Republic: for different interpreters, Weber's anti-utopianism came to signify radically different attitudes towards the modern world. My aim is to construct an original typology of these interpretations and, in the process, to explain why Weber was able to make such divergent impressions. His reception provides a case study for unde…
Carl Schmitt on land and sea
Carl Schmitt (1888-1985), one of the leading conservative legal thinkers of the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany, is best known today for his critique of liberalism. Between the late 1930s and mid-1950s, Schmitt wrote numerous articles and two books addressing the mythical and geopolitical significance of land and sea. In recent years, these texts have begun to attract attention from historians as well as theorists. This article reconstructs the …
Carl Schmitt, humanity and rights
Carl Schmitt, humanity and rights: Early modern readings, contemporary appraisals." History of European Ideas, 37(2), p. 153
Max Weber and Charisma
Charisma, a buzzword beloved by sociologists, political scientists, psychologists, self-help gurus, and scholars of celebrity, is in its modern secular usage a concept of very recent origin. Between 1915 and 1922 the German scholar Max Weber introduced it into the vocabulary of the social sciences. Despite the vast literature that scholars have devoted to Weber's concept of charisma, no concerted effort has been made to understand its transatlant…
Max Weber in Politics and Social Thought
Max Weber is widely regarded as one of the foundational thinkers of the twentieth century. But how did this reclusive German scholar manage to leave such an indelible mark on modern political and social thought? Max Weber in Politics and Social Thought is the first comprehensive account of Weber's wide-ranging impact on both German and American intellectuals. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Joshua Derman illuminates what Weber meant to contem…
Max Weber in politics and social thought
Max Weber is widely regarded as one of the foundational thinkers of the twentieth century. But how did this reclusive German scholar manage to leave such an indelible mark on modern political and social thought? Max Weber in Politics and Social Thought is the first comprehensive account of Weber's wide-ranging impact on both German and American intellectuals. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Joshua Derman illuminates what Weber meant to contem…
Beyond the Other Shore
For over half a century, the American transformation of German philosophy and social thought has been a major theme of modern intellectual history. The main protagonists of this “cultural migration,” as the story traditionally has been told, were German-speaking scholars and writers who, fleeing Hitler's Europe, brought their erudition and indigenous methodologies to American shores. But beyond this beachhead lies a vast and unfamiliar terrain fo…
Max Weber in Politics and Social Thought
"Max Weber is widely regarded as one of the foundational thinkers of the twentieth century. But how did this reclusive German scholar manage to leave such an indelible mark on modern political and social thought? Max Weber in Politics and Social Thought is the first comprehensive account of Weber's wide-ranging impact on both German and American intellectuals. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Joshua Derman illuminates what Weber meant to conte…
Max Weber in der Welt
278 Max Weber Studies© Max Weber Studies 2016. Terry Horgan and Matjaž Potrč’s argument that there is only one world, which is blob- or jello-like with enough internal variability to allow for statements that are true in the sense that they are assertable under ‘contextually operative semantic standards’,20 but have no real parts to which the semantic distinctions correspond, is more austere and physicalist than Gabriel’s, but ends up with the sa…
E lizabeth S. G oodstein . Georg Simmel and the Disciplinary Imaginary
What is the worst fate that can befall a famous intellectual—to be forgotten by posterity, or to be celebrated but misunderstood? According to Elizabeth S. Goodstein in Georg Simmel and the Disciplinary Imaginary, the German philosopher Georg Simmel has suffered a double indignity. Once hailed for his pioneering efforts to define sociology as the study of associational forms, Simmel was canonized by social scientists who expressed little understa…
Max Weber and the Idea of the Occident
Max Weber believed that the Occident had produced a set of unique institutions whose distinctiveness could be characterized using ideal types that accentuated their type and degree of “rationalism.” The rise of modern capitalism, one element within this set, had been enabled by the presence of other elements, he famously argued, none of which had indigenously arisen anywhere else in the world. This chapter reconstructs Weber’s idea of the Occiden…
Prophet of a Partitioned World
Historical scholarship on “great spaces,” a central concept in the political thought of Nazi Germany, has previously focused on legal debates while neglecting important economic contexts. The journalist Ferdinand Fried deserves to be considered one of the major economic theorists of “great spaces” in the Weimar, Nazi, and early postwar eras. Fried argued that the world economy was inexorably passing from globalization through economic nationalism…
Max Weber after 100 Years
The editors’ introduction to Max Weber at 100 surveys Weber’s career and the profound impact of his thought on the development of the modern humanities and social sciences. It traces the networks of his reception and identifies the key aspects of his oeuvre that have engaged generations of admirers and critics: his theses about the emergence of modern capitalism, his comparative historical analysis, his methodological and philosophical writings, …
Max Weber, Imperialism, and the Fate of Globalization
This chapter reconstructs Weber’s theoretical understanding of the global economy and its relationship to imperialism at the turn of the twentieth century. Competing interpretations of Weber tend to depict him, in binary fashion, as either a proponent of imperial autarky or a defender of liberal globalization. A close analysis of Weber’s 1897 rebuttal of the economist Karl Oldenberg shows that neither interpretation does justice to the nuances of…
The Atlantic Realists
Max Weber at 100
The year 2020 marked the centennial of the death of Max Weber, the German sociologist, scholar of world religions, economic historian, social philosopher, and theoretician of modern political life. This volume presents a collection of essays on the legacy and relevance of his thought. The authors, an international array of distinguished scholars, are drawn from various disciplines—philosophy, political science, intellectual history, and sociology…
Philosophy (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory (9 works) · History (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · German (5 works) · History (5 works)