Edmund Husserl's Impact on Max Weber

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ID2274028
AuthorsKenneth R Muse (Earlham College, corresponding author)
Year1981
Volume51
Issue2
Pages99-104
Publication date1981-04-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociological Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0245 • E-ISSN: 1475-682X
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1475-682x.1981.tb01032.x
OpenAlexW1989990466
LanguageEN
Citations received9

In correcting Rickert, Weber was influenced by Dilthey when he accepted the central place of interpretive understanding in the Geisteswissenschaften. But it was partly the influence of Husserl that led Weber to correct Dilthey's psychological reductionism in two respects, both of which are important in Weber's concept of ideal types: (1) categorial understanding, such as we have not only in mathematical analysis but also in the analysis of rational action, does not depend on psychological peculiarities, and (2) perceptual understanding, such as the investigator may have of irrational and nonrational action, is not given by immediate intuition alone but is partly constructed, and the validity of the construction must be tested by causal analysis. The author argues, further, that there is a phenomenological aspect to Weber's well-known types of authority, for example

Action (physics · Action theory (sociology · Epistemology · Intuition · Irrational number · Perception · Phenomenology (philosophy · Rationality · Reductionism · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory

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