Democracy & the Political in Max Weber's Thought, 2016, p.77-120
2016
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Democracy and the Political
- Ist Teil von
- Democracy & the Political in Max Weber's Thought, 2016, p.77-120
- Ort / Verlag
- Canada: University of Toronto Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2016
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- In this chapter I want to look atwhyandhowWeber strategically adds the idea of the charismatic political hero to his model of democracy. He does so most forcefully in his well-known lecture ‘The Profession and Vocation of Politics.’ In a detailed analysis of the logic and style of argument of that lecture, I will argue that Weber’s heroic political actor is a problematic emblem of what Sheldon Wolin has called thepolitical. For Wolin, ‘Thepolitical. . . is an expression of the idea that a free society composed of diversities can nonetheless enjoy moments of
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 9781442643369, 1442643366DOI: 10.3138/9781442695948-005Titel-ID: cdi_jstor_books_j_ctt2ttgq2_7
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Aristocracy, Behavioral sciences, Democracy, Economic disciplines, Economics, Employment, Government, Heroism, Historical methodology, Historiography, History, Human behavior, Labor economics, Liberalism, Occupations, Oligarchy, Political attitudes, Political change, Political ethics, Political history, Political ideologies, Political organizations, Political parties, Political philosophy, Political processes, Political regimes, Political revolutions, Political science, Political sociology, Political systems, Politicians, Politics