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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. They comprise both experts who have contributed to the ongoing study of Weber's work and theorists who discern his enduring bond with key problems in the humanities and social sciences. Max Weber at 100 seeks to understand the ways that Weber's legacy may take shape in the century to come. It contends that Weber's sustained relevance will derive not only--and perhaps not even predominantly--from his empirical claims, such as the "Weber thesis" about the origins of capitalism. Two key dimensions of his thought will play an increasingly important role in determining his significance: his inchoate but equally evocative theories about ecology, global capitalism, imperialism, democracy, and gender; and his broader, non-empirical or even philosophical observations concerning questions of human nature, value freedom, objectivity, secularization, rationalization, and disenchantment. The contributors cast a critical eye over Weber's oeuvre to ask what can still be learned from his work, and how his legacy might be contested or transformed.
Contents
Joshua Derman and Peter E. Gordon: Max Weber after 100 Years
Part I
1: Axel Honneth: The Fate of Creative Ideas: Max Weber on Normative Paradoxes
2: Peter E. Gordon: The Secularization of Knowledge: Weber on Fact and Value
3: Daniela K. Helbig: Objectify Yourself!: Marianne Weber's Imperative
4: Hans Joas: The Power of the Sacred: A Conversation with Hans Joas
Part II
5: Lawrence A. Scaff: "Until the Last Ton of Fossil Fuel Is Burned Up": Whither Capitalism?
6: Joshua Derman: Max Weber, Imperialism, and the Fate of Globalization
7: Christopher A. McAuley: Max Weber and W. E. B. Du Bois: The Making and Unmaking of a Correspondence
Part III
8: Sam Whimster: Caesarism and Democratic Agency in Max Weber
9: Edith Hanke: What about Democracy? Approaches to Max Weber's Political Sociology
10: Stephen Turner: Weber's Countergenealogy of Democracy
11: Isaac Ariail Reed and Julia Adams: Patriarchal Patrimonialism: Authority, Gender, and Max Weber's Political Sociology
