Rechmann Jan. Max Weber. Modernisation as Passive Revolution. A Gramscian Analysis

Leiden: Brill, 2013. — 457 p. — ISBN: 978-90-04-27179-1; ISBN: 978-90-04-28099-1 — (Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume: 78)Basing his research on Gramsci’s theory of hegemony, Rehmann provides a comprehensive socio-analysis of Max Weber’s political and intellectual position in the ideological network of his time. Max Weber: Modernisation as Passive Revolution shows that, even though Weber presents his science as ‘value-free’, he is best understood as an organic intellectual of the bourgeoisie, who has the mission of providing his class with an intense ethico-political education. Viewed as a whole, his writings present a new model for bourgeois hegemony in the transition to ‘Fordism’. Weber is both a sharp critic of a ‘passive revolution’ in Germany tying the bourgeois class to the interests of the agrarian class, and a proponent of a more modern version of passive revolution, which would foreclose a socialist revolution by the construction of an industrial bloc consisting of the bourgeoisie and labour aristocracy.Preliminary Material
Introduction to the First EditionWeber's 1904 Journey to America
The Ambivalent Fascination of Capitalism
Taylorism and Fordism in the Stockyards
The Alliance of Religion and Business
The 'Displacement' of Religion from the State into Civil Society (Marx)
The Sect as Germ Cell of a Superior Model of Societalisation
Formulating the Question in Terms of a Critical Theory of Ideology
Theory of Reflection and Transcendental Idealism — An Epistemological Rendezvous manque
The Dualism of LawDetermined 'Nature' and ValueDetermined 'Culture'
The Value Relation' as Bearer of'Freedom from Value Judgements'
Farewell to the Abstract Heaven of Ideas — Outlines of a Philosophical Paradigm Shift
From the System of Values to the 'Clash of Values '— Weber's Reorganisation of the NeoKantian Philosophy of Values
Weber's Concept of Spheres of Value as a Modernisation of Ideological Societalisation
IdealTypical Conceptualisation's Blind Spot
The EthicoPolitical Stakes of a 'Purely Historical Account'
The Basic Operation: Isolation of the 'Mental and Spiritual Particularities'
From German 'Cultural Protestantism' to Anglo-American 'Civil Religion'
Weber and Simmel: The Psychological 'Deepening' of Marxian Value-Form Analysis
Werner Sombart's 'Overcoming' of Marxism
Weber's Dislodgement of the 'Spirit of Capitalism' from Capitalism
Weber's Perspective: Capitalist Spirit as a Popular Mass Movement
Weber's Dislodgement of the 'Spirit of Capitalism' from Capitalism
Weber's Perspective: Capitalist Spirit as a Popular Mass Movement
Outlook: The Social Components of Weber's Orientalist Sociology of ReligionBibliographv