scholarly journals Max Weber and political theology of Friedrich Naumann

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 657-669
Author(s):  
O. V. Kildyushov
Keyword(s):  
Max Weber ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Political Leader ◽  
German Empire ◽  
Social Activists ◽  
Western Modernity ◽  
The Social ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Modern Era

In the Weberian literature, it has been repeatedly noted that there is no serious theological interest in the most important provisions of the sociology of religion by Max Weber. This seems paradoxical given the religious-theological context for the development of Webers intellectual project of the social-theoretical hermeneutics of Western modernity. In the first part of the article, the author reconstructs the family and friends religious constellation which determined Webers understanding of the existential significance of religious meanings for certain groups of the modern era. The author mentions Webers close ties with a number of leading theologians of Germany in the late 19th - early 20th centuries, which influenced the heuristics of his writings. The second part of the article focuses on the multifaceted figure of Friedrich Naumann, a public intellectual, who was a Protestant pastor and a reactionary-conservative theologian and became a spiritual-political leader of the German left liberals. The author shows the initial ambivalence of the political-religious situation in the German Empire in the 1880s-1890s, in which Naumann tried to combine Christianity and socialism, and provides a brief overview of the young theologian and social activists gradual turning into a prominent figure of the German journalism and politics. In the third part of the article, the author describes the meeting of two thinkers as fateful for both Weber and Naumann, and emphasizes a radical turn in the worldview of the famous religious theorist and practitioner, who under the powerful influence of Webers personality and argumentation gave up both many previous ideas and pastors office. In conclusion, the author identifies the paradigmatic nature of Naumans ideological-political evolution as typical for a significant part of German intellectuals at the beginning of the 20th century, and considers Naumanns Hegelian acceptance of the modern nation-state as the highest value (following Weber) as a self-fulfilling diagnosis for the crisis modernity on the eve of the First World War catastrophe.

scholarly journals Educação e dever profissional na constituição da subjetividade moderna (Education and professional duty in the constitution of the modern subjectivity)

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 367
Author(s):  
Sandra Aparecida Riscal
Keyword(s):  
Professional Training ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
Frankfurt Am Main ◽  
Western Modernity ◽  
Educational Processes ◽  
Professional Duty ◽  
P 75

This article aims to discuss the role of the professional duty in the constitution of the modern subjectivity, based on the analysis of this theme in the books of Max Weber called Essays on the Sociology of Religion. Weber presents a genealogy of the Western modernity, approaching it from the point of view of its specific rationality through which a subjectivity based on the practical instrumental domain would have been consolidated. According to Weber, the Lutheran Reformation, through asceticism, gave to the labor an ethical-religious dimension and laid the foundations for the modern conception of "professional duty", which extended itself to all domains of the human activity. The concept of work as a vocation, derived from Protestant asceticism, is embodied in the methodical and disciplined dedication to work conceived as an individual destiny. By means of the internalization of a specific form of rationality, to which everyone must passively conform, a process of subjectivation has been established, which imposes an instrumental rationality as a legitimate means of cognitive and practical approach to all worldly processes.As a result, professional duty began to determine the sense and meaning of educational processes, whose main purpose is training for work.ResumoEste artigo tem como objetivo discutir o papel do dever profissional na constituição da subjetividade moderna a partir da análise deste tema nos livros de Max Weber denominados Ensaios sobre a Sociologia das Religiões.  Weber apresenta uma genealogia da modernidade ocidental, abordando-a do ponto de vista de sua racionalidade específica por meio da qual teria se consolidado uma subjetividade fundamentada no domínio prático instrumental. Segundo Weber, a Reforma Luterana, por meio da ascese, conferiu ao trabalho uma dimensão ético-religiosa e estabeleceu as bases para a concepção moderna de "dever profissional", que se estendeu para todos os domínios da atividade humana. O conceito de trabalho como vocação, derivado da ascese protestante, consubstancia-se na entrega metódica e disciplinada no trabalho concebido como destino individual. Por meio da internalização de uma forma específica de racionalidade, a que todos devem se conformar passivamente, constituiu-se um processo de subjetivação que impõe uma racionalidade instrumental como um meio legítimo de abordagem cognitiva e prática de todos os processos mundanos. Como decorrência, o dever profissional passou a determinar o sentido e significado dos processos educativos, cuja finalidade precípua é a formação para o trabalho.     Keywords: Max Weber, Professional training, Subjectivity, Education.Palavras-chave: Max Weber, Formação profissional, Subjetividade, Educação.ReferencesCARVALHO, A. B. Max Weber - modernidade Ciencia e Educação. Petrópolis: Ed. Vozes, 2005.FLICKINGER, H.-G. Reforma e Secularização:uma interface histórica. Veritas, Porto Alegre, v. 63, n.1, p. 224-234, jan-mar. 2018.FREUND, J. L'imaginaire dans l'épistémologie de Weber, Librairie Droz, 1990. In: FREUND, J. Études sur Max Weber. Paris: Librairie Droz, 1990.FUENTE, Y. R. D. L. La libertad como destino: El sujeto moderno en Max Weber. Madrid: Editorial Biblioteca Nueva, 2001.GARCIA, J. M. G. Las huellas de Fausto. La herencia de Goethe en la sociología de Max Weber. Madrid: Tecnos, 1992.LUTERO, M. Tratado da liberdade Cristã. In: LUTERO, M. 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Zwischenbetrachtung. Die Wirtschaftsethik der Weltreligionen. Konfuzianismus und Taoismus (Max Weber Gesamtausgabe - (Max Weber Gesamtausgabe MWG I/19). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1989. SCHMIDT-GLINZER, Helwig & KOLONKO, P. (Orgs.).WEBER, M. A Ética Protestande e o "Espírito" do Capitalismo. Tradução de José Marcos Mariani de Macedo. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2004.WEBER, M. Wissenschaft als Beruf - in Gesammelte Werke. Berlin: Digitale Bibliothek -Directmedia Publishing GmbH, 2005b.WEBER, M. Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus in Gesammelte Aufsätza zur Religions Sociologie. Berlin: Digitale Bibliothek - Directmedia Publishing GmbH, v. I, 2005.

Western Ethnic Borderlands in the Influence of Russian-Soviet Propagangda Before and in the Years of the Second World War

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (46) ◽  
pp. 32-39
Author(s):  
Igor Lyubchyk
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Russian Orthodoxy ◽  
The Social ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Post War ◽  
Second World ◽  
First World ◽  
Russian Identity

The research issue peculiarities of wide Russian propaganda among the most Western ethnographic group – Lemkies is revealed in the article. The character and orientation of Russian and Soviet agitation through the social, religious and social movements aimed at supporting Russian identity in the region are traced. Tragic pages during the First World War were Thalrogian prisons for Lemkas, which actually swept Lemkivshchyna through Muscovophilian influences. Agitation for Russian Orthodoxy has provoked frequent cases of sharp conflicts between Lemkas. In general, attempts by moskvophile agitators to impose russian identity on the Orthodox rite were failed. Taking advantage of the complex socio-economic situation of Lemkos, Russian campaigners began to promote moving to the USSR. Another stage of Russian propaganda among Lemkos began with the onset of the Second World War. Throughout the territory of the Galician Lemkivshchyna, Soviet propaganda for resettlement to the USSR began rather quickly. During the dramatic events of the Second World War and the post-war period, despite the outbreaks of the liberation movement, among the Lemkoswere manifestations of political sympathies oriented toward the USSR. Keywords: borderlands, Lemkivshchyna, Lemky, Lemkivsky schism, Moskvophile, Orthodoxy, agitation, ethnopolitics

Revenants of the German Empire

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Andrew Wempe
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
International Governance ◽  
German Empire ◽  
Liberal Internationalism ◽  
Treaty Of Versailles ◽  
The First World War ◽  
German Investment ◽  
Nazi Era ◽  
First World

This book addresses the various ways in which Colonial Germans attempted to cope with the loss of the German colonies after the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. The German colonial advocates who are the focus of this monograph comprised not only those individuals who had been allowed to remain in the mandates as new subjects of the Allies, but also former colonial officials, settlers, and missionaries who were forcibly repatriated by the mandatory powers after the First World War. These Kolonialdeutsche (Colonial Germans) had invested substantial time and money in German imperialism. This work places particular emphasis on how colonial officials, settlers, and colonial lobbies made use of the League of Nations framework, and investigates the involvement of former settlers and colonial officials in such diplomatic flashpoints as the Naturalization Controversy in South African-administered Southwest Africa, and German participation in the Permanent Mandates Commission (PMC) from 1927 to 1933. The period of analysis ends in 1933 with an investigation of the involvement of one of Germany’s former colonial governors in the League of Nations’ commission sent to assess the Manchurian Crisis between China and Japan. This study revises standard historical portrayals of the League of Nations’ form of international governance, German participation in the League, the role of interest groups in international organizations and diplomacy, and liberal imperialism. In analyzing colonial German investment and participation in interwar liberal internationalism, the project also challenges the idea of a direct continuity between Germany’s colonial period and the Nazi era.

The Return of Alsace to France, 1918-1939

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Carrol
Keyword(s):  
National Policy ◽  
Third Republic ◽  
French Society ◽  
German Empire ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The First World War ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
A Site ◽  
First World

In 1918 the end of the First World War triggered the return of Alsace to France after almost fifty years of annexation into the German Empire. Enthusiastic crowds in Paris and Alsace celebrated the homecoming of the so-called lost province, but return proved far less straightforward than anticipated. The region’s German-speaking population demonstrated strong commitment to local cultures and institutions, as well as their own visions of return to France. As a result, the following two decades saw politicians, administrators, industrialists, cultural elites, and others grapple with the question of how to make Alsace French again. The answer did not prove straightforward; differences of opinion emerged both inside and outside the region, and reintegration became a fiercely contested process that remained incomplete when war broke out in 1939. The Return of Alsace to France examines this story. Drawing upon national, regional, and local archives, it follows the difficult process of Alsace’s reintegration into French society, culture, political and economic systems, and legislative and administrative institutions. It connects the microhistory of the region with the macro levels of national policy, international relations, and transnational networks, and with the cross-border flows of ideas, goods, people, and cultural products that shaped daily life in Alsace. Revealing Alsace to be a site of exchange between a range of interest groups with different visions of the region’s future, this book underlines the role of regional populations and cross-border interactions in forging the French Third Republic.

Esteem and self-esteem as an interweaving polarity. Max Weber´s analysis from the Protestant ethic to the ideal-type of politician

Human Affairs ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-364
Author(s):  
Cristiana Senigaglia
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Protestant Ethic ◽  
Social Reputation ◽  
Conduct Of Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Ideal

AbstractAlthough Max Weber does not specifically analyze the topic of esteem, his investigation of the Protestant ethic offers interesting insights into it. The change in mentality it engendered essentially contributed to enhancing the meaning and importance of esteem in modern society. In his analysis, Weber ascertains that esteem was fundamental to being accepted and integrated into the social life of congregations. Nevertheless, he also highlights that esteem was supported by a form of self-esteem which was not simply derived from a good social reputation, but also achieved through a deep and continual self-analysis as well as a strict discipline in the ethical conduct of life. The present analysis reconstructs the different aspects of the relationship between social and self-esteem and analyzes the consequences of that relationship by focusing on the exemplary case of the politician’s personality and ethic.

scholarly journals The transformative public of Jane Addams

Journalism ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 146488492095858
Author(s):  
Leena Ripatti-Torniainen
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Social Ethics ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
Jane Addams ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
Social Divisions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Inquiry

This article provides an alternative contribution to journalism studies on a foundational concept by analysing texts of Jane Addams, a public intellectual contemporary with the seminal scholars Walter Lippmann and John Dewey. The author uses methods of intellectual history to construct the concept of the public from Addams’s books: Democracy and Social Ethics and The Newer Ideals of Peace, showing that all three authors, Lippmann, Dewey and Addams, discuss the same topic of individuals’ changed engagement with public political life. Addams departs from Lippmann and Dewey in setting out from the standpoints of exclusion and cosmopolitanism. Her argument regarding the public, as constructed by the author, consists of two premises. First, public engagement is a method of democratic inclusion as well as social and political inquiry for Addams. She sees the extension of relationality across social divisions as a necessary method to understand society and materialise democracy. Second, Addams emphasises cooperative and reflexive involvement especially in the characteristic developments of a time. She considers industrialisation and cosmopolitanism as characteristic developments of her own era. Addams suggests an in-principle cosmopolitan concept of the public that includes marginalised persons and groups. Compared to Lippmann’s and Dewey’s accounts of the public, Jane Addams’s argument is more radical and far more sensitive to the social inequality and plurality of a drastically morphing society.

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