Max Weber and Democratic Politics / / Peter Breiner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Breiner, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)

In this work, Peter Breiner explores the implications of Max Weber's political sociology for political judgment and democratic theory. In the process, he rejects what is problematic and retains what is valuable in the theorist's political thought and then uses the results to elaborate upon and extend democratic theory. The author analyzes the tensions between the subjective and objective dimensions of Weber's logic of rationality in his methodology, his reconstruction of economic theory, his views on political practice and value conflict, and his understanding of the demands that the "business" of politics imposes upon political ethics.The book situates Weber in relation to the great political theorists of the past (Thucydides, Machiavelli, Rousseau, Gramsci) as well as engaging some of the most important Weberian scholarship. Rigorous, tightly argued, and concise, the volume will interest both political and social theorists: the former because of the focus on judgment and participatory democracy and the latter for the author's thorough and novel treatment of Weber.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations of Max Weber’s Works -- Introduction -- 1. Social Science and the Interpretation of Means-Ends Rationality -- 2. The Sociological Clarification of Action: Weberian Political Judgment -- 3. The Political Logic of Economics and the Economic Logic of Politics: Marginal Utility versus Prudential Political Economy -- 4. The Reason of Modern Politics: Politics as a Business, Politics as a Vocation -- 5. Political Ethics and the Fear of Mass Politics: The Partial Uses of Impartiality -- 6. Weberian Political Ethics, Moral Luck, and the Problems of Participatory Democracy -- Index