How Well Do We Know Max Weber After All? A New Look at Max Weber and His Anglo-German Family Connections

Guenther Roth's study places Max Weber in an intricate network of ties among members of his lineage. This paper presents core findings of Roth's analysis of Weber's family relations, discusses the validity of Roth's core theses and some of the implications of his analysis for Weber as a person and scholar, and addresses how Roth's book may influence future approaches to Weber's sociology.     

现代官僚制的经济性和工具性——马克斯·韦伯的现代官僚制理论及启示

对现代官僚制作全面深刻的理解,有赖于对其理论的奠基人马克斯·韦伯之理论文本的深入剖析。本文通过对马克斯·韦伯现代官僚制理论的梳理后认为,经济性是现代官僚制兴起的原因,工具性则是官僚制的本质,这种本质又直接导致了现代官僚制的自我权力化并产生了政治与行政之争,而制度之下的人也随之被工具化。现代官僚制在创造了惊人的管理效率的同时,也产生了大量的问题。如何在现代官僚制下实现“人是目的”这一主题,则是马克斯·韦伯理论的永久命题。     

‘Hope is a mistake,if you can’t fix what’s broken you go insane’: a reading of gender, (s)heroism and redemption in Mad Max: Fury Road

After a hiatus of 30 years since the first three films, the fourth Mad Max film was released in 2015, called Fury Road. It features the familiar eponymous character of Max, but this time alongside a female character, Imperator Furiosa. The gender dynamics of the fourth film are vastly different from those of the first three films and elicited much praise as well as criticism. It provides a new perspective through which to view the early films and the dystopian post-apocalyptic future world presented in the films. Fury Road introduces a corrective to the earlier films in terms of their reductive depictions of the relations between men and women, while avoiding an equally reductive representation of gendered shame and blame. The message is clearly about collaboration and cooperation as essential for the redemption of a world in which gendered inequities and abuses of power remain deeply disconcerting obstacles. This article considers some of the most salient aspects related to the depiction of women in Fury Road and of the relationship between the two main characters, Max and Furiosa.     

试析马克斯·韦伯经济伦理思想的局限性

通过剖析了马克斯.韦伯经济伦理思想的缺陷,进而对其进行了批判。批判韦伯论述的研究视角单一性、"欧洲中心主义"的片面性、对东方宗教伦理认识的粗浅性、忽视资本主义的贪婪攫取性、以宗教伦理解决资本主义困境方式的局限性、经济伦理思想体系的矛盾性。借鉴马克思对资本主义的批判,认为要解决现代资本主义社会的危机,只能以对资本主义制度本身改造为前提。     

Normes,débat et délibération dans la démocratie parlementaire : Max Weber et Jürgen Habermas

ABSTRACT

This article analyzes the significance of the norm in the conceptions of Max Weber, sociologist and author of the classical work Economy and Society, and of Jürgen Habermas, philosopher and sociologist of the Frankfurt School. Both authors have in fact dedicated specific studies to the sociology of right and have conferred a central function on the norms in order to guarantee a correct functioning of parliamentary democracy. For Weber and Habermas, the norm exists in a constitutive tension between facticity and normativity, i.e. between its factual influence on society and its theoretical legitimacy. Weber distinguishes between the juridicial and the sociological meaning of the norm, which is respectively related to its normative value and to its effects on society. For Habermas, the norm is adhered to, but it also has to be legitimized, and this can only be reached as a consequence of a democratic debate that produces consensus. In the political sphere, Weber and Habermas stress the importance of an interaction between legality and political discussion, democratic procedures and their process of institutionalization, thus emphasizing the necessity of guaranteeing a political debate subject to rules. Nevertheless, their ideas of democracy partially differ. Weber conceives of a democracy based on a majority, whereas Habermas stresses the necessity of reaching an agreement. This article analyzes the different models of democracy articulated by Weber and Habermas, their significance, and the possibility of integration between them.     

自身欺罔与价值欺罔——舍勒现象学论域中的“欺罔”问题

对“欺罔”(“自身欺罔”和“价值欺罔”)的现象学反省在舍勒整个现象学时期占据着极为重要的位置.与“自身被给予”相对,“欺罔”在本质上意味着一种不恰当的被给予方式,“自身欺罔”或“价值欺罔”则意味着一种不恰当的“自身”或“价值”的被给予方式.舍勒对这一问题的现象学反思与其现象学研究的诸多领域密切相关,他的最终目的是在各个...     

Punctual selves,punctual death and the health-conscious cogito: Descartes’ dead bodies

Abstract

This paper reflects critically on the late-modern obsession with health by presenting Descartes as an almost ideal type of the health-conscious subject. Descartes’ life, works and death are interpreted from the unlikely combination of the theoretical perspectives of Charles Taylor and Jean Baudrillard. Despite significant differences, both of these theorists rely heavily on Weber's concept of disenchantment, and each develops a ‘punctual’ concept in their analysis of modernity. Specifically, the paper combines Taylor's ‘punctual self’, which can remake itself at will, with Baudrillard's ‘punctual death’, which presents death as a meaningless terminus. Viewing Descartes through these punctual concepts, it becomes clear that the extensive anatomical investigations he conducted throughout his career shaped his uniquely modern stance towards death and health. However, Descartes maintained an ambivalent relationship with traditional conceptions of death and health, which prevented him from fully embracing modern health-consciousness. The paper concludes with a reconsideration of Descartes’ ‘premature’ death, which invites critical reflection on the role that the predictable behaviour of health-conscious subjects plays in the ever-expanding biomedical order.     

Max Weber: Family History, Economic Policy, Exchange Reform

Max Weber descended from Anglo-German merchant families with world-wide connections. This helped make him a cosmopolitan nationalist. Fittingly Weber at first tried to pursue a career in international commercial law. Family connections informed his understanding of South American wheat exports and North American railroad capitalism and of the tariff issues resulting therefrom. This in turn influenced his critique of the Prussian agrarian capitalists, especially of their opposition to trading in grain futures. Weber championed a strong capital market and efficient exchanges. His economic policies remain of exemplary interest insofar as they link the presumptive, if contested, national interest with an unsentimental acceptance of the world economy.     

从《新教伦理与资本主义精神》看韦伯的个体主义方法论意义

本文从社会学方法论角度出发,分析了《新教伦理与资本主义精神》的研究思路。马克斯·韦伯的这部巨著不仅对现代资本主义的兴起做出了文化解释,同时更是其个体主义方法论的完美演绎,在方法论研究上具有重要的意义。     

“现实的人”与“惟一者”：马克思与施蒂纳的主体论之别

马克思与施蒂纳的争论关涉到如何理解形而上学、本质主义在马克思哲学中的地位问题。马克思受施蒂纳影响而提出的“现实的人”,与施蒂纳主张的“惟一者”虽然都具有主体自持性的特点,但在是否追求本质（精神）世界,是否承担对虚无的充实,是否追求永恒、普遍、整体,“现实”或“感性”中是否还拥有超出离散性原子事实的整体性维度及与此相关的超验性维度,对人、现实、历史的理解还是否需要保持辩证法的框架等方面,存在根本性的差异：马克思的回答是肯定的,施蒂纳是否定的。马克思的“现实的人”仍然具有以“现实”、“感性”为根基的“本质性”、“普遍性”、“神圣性”和某种意义上的“抽象性”。所谓马克思反现代性、反本质主义和反传统形而上学,也只能在这样有限的限度内理解,否则就等于把马克思施蒂纳化了。