Weber’s tragic legacy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12923191 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Ned Lebow (0000-0002-1972-141X, King's College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 37-58 |
| Publication date | 2016-10-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of International Political Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1755-0882 • E-ISSN: 1755-1722 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1755088216672241 |
| OpenAlex | W2531643543 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 19 |
Weber’s corpus is characterized by four tensions: the epistemological between subjective values and objective knowledge, the sociological between social rationalization and irrational myths, the political among conflicting values, and the tragic between human conscience and worldly affairs. I explore how three of Weber’s successors struggled with these tensions. Theodore Adorno and Max Horkheimer, in the early postwar writings, sought to resolve them, as did Carl Schmitt—although in diametrically opposed directions. Hans Morgenthau sought to keep them alive but did not refine them. They remain very relevant to contemporary international relations theory
Conscience · Critical theory · Epistemology · Irrational number · Mythology · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Rationalization (economics · Social theory · Sociology · Theology · Law · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
Roman Catholicism and political form
Power, Realism and Constructivism
Critique, Norm, and Utopia
Max Weber and International Relations
Weber
Political Theology
Modernity and the Aporias of Critical Theory
Martin Heidegger and European Nihilism
The philosophical discourse of modernity
Carl Schmitt's method
Max Weber and the Ethos of Politics beyond Calculation
Scientific Man Vs. Power Politics
Politics Among Nations
Max Weber, Collected methodological writings
From Max Weber
The Concept of the Political
Dialectic of Enlightenment
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |