Max Weber - Modernisation As Passive Revolution
Subtitle: A Gramsican Analysis
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9789004280991
Description: 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 &#x91;value-free&#x92;, he is best understood as an organic intellectual of the bourgeoisie. Viewed as a whole, his writings present a new model for bourgeois hegemony in the transition to &#x91;Fordism&#x92;. Throughout his analysis, Rehmann brings into view the true Weber: a sharp critic of a &#x91;passive revolution&#x92; 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.