In Affirming Them, He Affirms Himself

Max Weber's Politics of Civil Society

Bibliographic Data

ID6350987
AuthorsSung Ho Kim (University of California, Riverside, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume28
Issue2
Pages197-229
Publication date2000-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitical Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-5917 • E-ISSN: 1552-7476
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0090591700028002004
OpenAlexW2143908717
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited46

But with the member of a Nonconforming or self-made religious community, how different! The sectary's eigene grosse Erfindungen, as Goethe calls them,—the precious discoveries of himself and his friends for expressing the inexpressible and defining the undefinable in peculiar forms of their own,—cannot but, as he has voluntarily chosen them and is personally responsible for them, fill his whole mind. He is zealous to do battle for them and affirm them; for in affirming them, he affirms himself, and that is what we all like. Matthew Arnold

Ancient history · Battle · Epistemology · Reflexive pronoun · History · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religion and Society Interactions · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory

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