A political style of thinking : essays on Max Weber
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A political style of thinking : essays on Max Weber
（ECPR Press essays）
ECPR Press, 2017
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Max Weber studies have been radically transformed since the 1980s. The author continues this revision by reading Weber as a thoroughly political thinker. Weber's key concept is Chance, a concept that allows us to study politics as contingent activity and to understand both the actions of politicians and the presence of the political aspect in research. This collection contains essays from 1999 to 2014 and a new introduction. The first part deals with Weber's concept of politics and the politician as an ideal type, the second discusses Weber's reinterpretations of key political concepts of freedom, democracy, parliament, nation and the state. The third part links Weber's concept of 'objectivity' with the parliamentary style of politics. The essays set Weber's political thought in relationship to his predecessors (Constant, Bagehot, Nietzsche), contemporaries (Sombart, Schmitt, Benjamin), later (Arendt, Sartre) or contemporary scholars (Skinner, Koselleck) and current Weber studies (Hennis, Scaff, Ghosh).
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Chapter One - Introduction: Max Weber as a Political Thinker 1
PART I - POLITICS AND POLITICIANS - WEBERIAN THEMES 15
Chapter Two - Four Times of Politics: Policy, Polity, Politicking and
Politicisation 17
Chapter Three - Politics or the Political? An Historical Perspective on a
Contemporary Non-Debate 29
Chapter Four - Sombart and Weber on Professional Politicians 39
Chapter Five - Max Weber's Three Types of Professional Politicians:
A Rhetorical Approach 53
PART II - WEBER AS A CONCEPTUAL POLITICIAN 71
Chapter Six - Max Weber's Reconceptualisation of Freedom 73
Chapter Seven - Was Max Weber a `Nationalist'? A Study in the Rhetoric
of Conceptual Change 89
Chapter Eight - Imagining Max Weber's Reply to Hannah Arendt:
Remarks on the Arendtian Critique of Representative Democracy 103
Chapter Nine - The State as a Chance Concept: Max Weber's
De-Substantialisation and Neutralisation of the Concept 119
PART III - A PARLIAMENTARY VISION 135
Chapter Ten - Max Weber, Parliamentarism and the Rhetorical Culture
of Politics 137
Chapter Eleven - `Objectivity' as Fair Play: Max Weber's Parliamentary
Redescription of a Normative Concept 153
Chapter Twelve - Max Weber's Rhetoric of `Objectivity':
The Parliament as a Paradigm for Scholarly Disputes 169
Chapter Thirteen - Was Max Weber Wrong about Westminster? 185
List of Abbreviations for the Weber Editions 201
Bibliography 203
Index 221
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