Causes and Consequences: Responsibility in the Political Thought of Max Weber

Polity ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick O'Donovan
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
The Political

Reviews: The Vision of Politics on the Eve of the Reformation: More Machiavelli and Seyssel, Edmund Burke: His Political Philosophy, The Social Thought of Rousseau and Burke: A Comparative Study, Bentham's Political Thought, in the Interest of the Governed: A Study in Bentham's Philosophy of Utility and Law, Utilitarian Ethics, Utilitarianism for and Against, Hegel's Theory of the Modern State, Socialism since Marx: A Century of the European Left, between Ideals and Reality: A Critique of Socialism and Its Future, The Economics and Politics of Socialism: Collected Essays, James Connolly: Selected Political Writings, The Moral and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi, R. H. Tawney and His Times: Socialism as Fellowship, Stalin as a Revolutionary 1879–1929: A Study in History and Personality, Stalin: The Man and His Era, The Morality of Politics, Max Weber and The Theory of Modern Politics, Weber, the Age of Bureaucracy, Perspectives on the Political Sociology of Max Weber, Oxford Essays in Jurisprudence (Second Series), The English Ideology: Studies in the Language of Victorian Politics, The Uses of Ideology, Knowledge and Belief in Politics. The Problem of Ideology, Nationalism: The Nature and Evolution of an Idea, Revolutionaries, Politics in England Today: An Interpretation, Maladministration and its Remedies, The Private Government of Public Money. Community and Policy inside British Politics, the Transport Revolution, Pressure Groups and the Permissive Society, the Political Impact of Mass Media, Belfast: Approach to Crisis: A Study of Belfast Politics, 1613–1970, the Ruling Elites: Elite Theory, Power and American Democracy

1974 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 485-544
Author(s):  
Malcolm Jack ◽  
Robert Wokler ◽  
L. Burkholder ◽  
Raymond Plant ◽  
S. T. Glass ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
The Political ◽  
British Politics ◽  
Elite Theory ◽  
Pressure Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ruling Elites ◽  
Public Money ◽  
Private Government

Leo Strauss's Conception of Political Philosophy: A Critique

1967 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 492-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hwa Yol Jung
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
Leo Strauss ◽  
Natural Right

The political thought of Leo Strauss commands the respect and admiration of even his critics. His critical intellectual carpentry is sharp, cutting, and often rebuking. His criticism of modernity, whether it be that of Machiavelli, Max Weber, an existentialist, or a scientific political scientist, is inspired by and deeply rooted in the Greek intellectualistic essentialism, particularly that of Aristotle, and the age-old tradition of nature and natural right as is shown in his work, Natural Right and History

The Political Thought of Max Weber: In Quest of Statesmanship.

1973 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 156
Author(s):  
Arthur Schweitzer ◽  
Ilse Dronberger
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
The Political

scholarly journals The political realism of Jeremy Bentham

2021 ◽  
pp. 147488512110015
Author(s):  
James Vitali
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
The Political ◽  
Bernard Williams ◽  
Jeremy Bentham ◽  
Political Realism ◽  
Realistic Approach ◽  
Political Thinker ◽  
Unique Domain

Jeremy Bentham is usually seen as an anti-realist political thinker, or a proponent of what Bernard Williams has termed ‘political moralism’. This article questions that prevalent view and suggests instead that there are good grounds for considering Bentham a political realist. Bentham’s political thought has considerable commonalities with that of the sociologist and political realist Max Weber: both agree that politics is a unique domain of human activity defined by its association with power; that consequently, ethical conduct is unavoidably inflected by power in politics; that a commitment to truth in politics can only ever be contingent; and that politics has a set of basic conditions that it would be not only misguided but dangerous to attempt to transcend. Whilst it is often held that Bentham advanced a reductive framework for understanding politics, in fact, his utilitarianism was a far more realistic approach to political ends and means than has generally been acknowledged, and one that contemporary political theory realists would benefit from taking seriously.

Simone Weil

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatrice Marovich
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
The Political ◽  
Sovereign Power ◽  
Bare Life ◽  
Intellectual Curiosity ◽  
Creation Theology ◽  
Simone Weil

Few of Giorgio Agamben’s works are as mysterious as his unpublished dissertation, reportedly on the political thought of the French philosopher Simone Weil. If Weil was an early subject of Agamben’s intellectual curiosity, it would appear – judging from his published works – that her influence upon him has been neither central nor lasting.1 Leland de la Durantaye argues that Weil’s work has left a mark on Agamben’s philosophy of potentiality, largely in his discussion of the concept of decreation; but de la Durantaye does not make much of Weil’s influence here, determining that her theory of decreation is ‘essentially dialectical’ and still too bound up with creation theology. 2 Alessia Ricciardi, however, argues that de la Durantaye’s dismissal of Weil’s influence is hasty.3 Ricciardi analyses deeper resonances between Weil’s and Agamben’s philosophies, ultimately claiming that Agamben ‘seems to extend many of the implications and claims of Weil’s idea of force’,4 arguably spreading Weil’s influence into Agamben’s reflections on sovereign power and bare life.

The Political Thought of George Grant

1991 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-68
Author(s):  
H.D. Forbes
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
The Political ◽  
George Grant

Entangling Plato: A Guide through the Political Theory Archive

2021 ◽  
pp. 009059172199807
Author(s):  
Liam Klein ◽  
Daniel Schillinger
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
The Political ◽  
Athenian Democracy

Political theorists have increasingly sought to place Plato in active dialogue with democracy ancient and modern by examining what S. Sara Monoson calls “Plato’s democratic entanglements.” More precisely, Monoson, J. Peter Euben, Arlene Saxonhouse, Christina Tarnopolsky, and Jill Frank approach Plato as both an immanent critic of the Athenian democracy and a searching theorist of self-governance. In this guide through the Political Theory archive, we explore “entanglement approaches” to the study of Plato, outlining their contribution to our understanding of Plato’s political thought and to the discipline of political theory.

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