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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988787
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Stefan Breuer is emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Hamburg. His publications include several books on Max Weber and also on the radical right in Germany and Europe (Nationalismus und Faschismus in Europa, Campus 2025).Steve Fuller is Auguste Comte Professor of Social Epistemology at the University of Warwick, UK. Originally trained in history, philosophy and sociology of science, Fuller is best known for his foundational work in the field of ‘social epistemology’, which is the name of a quarterly journal he founded in 1987 as well as the first of his nearly thirty books. His most recent research has focused on the future sustainability of ‘humanity’ as a concept in light of ’post-’ and ’trans-’
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988788
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Max Weber sent his resignation letter from the Pan-German League in April 1899. It is not known exactly when he joined the League but he did attend its annual conferences in 1894 and 1895. Weber’s political focus was Germany’s eastern border with Poland where the large farm estates were just about maintaining their economic viability by employing immigrant Polish and Russian labour, which cost less than the traditional German farmworker. This made the border porous and increased the Polonization of the eastern provinces. Weber recommended closing the borders and a settlement policy of Germanization. Stefan Breuer in his article ‘Max Weber in the Pan-German League’ argues that Weber’s politics were congruent with
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In the final years of the 19th century, Max Weber developed a strong interest in agricultural policy issues. He sought and found discussion partners and allies in the liberal camp (Lujo Brentano), amongst later social democrats (Paul Göhre), but also in organisations of the radical right such as the Pan-German League (Alldeutscher Verband). This broad spectrum should actually warn against a reading that identifies him one-sidedly with any one of these positions. In the publications of today’s leading cosmopolitan and post-colonial intelligentsia, however, Weber’s agrarian agenda is predominantly attributed to the far right, and he himself is categorised as an imperialist, racist, social Darwinist and precursor of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/806/image/coversmallMax Weber in the Pan-German League2026-04-23text/htmlen-USMax Weber in the Pan-German League2026-04-232026TWOProject MUSE®1743982026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-23Max Weber on Argentina: Wheat and Semi-Barbarism
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988790
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in order to compete with economies like those described, we would have to descend, not ascend, in the character of our social structure and our cultural level, reaching the level of a semi-barbaric people with a low population density, such as Argentina.In ‘Die Erhebung des Vereins für Sozialpolitik über die Lage der Landarbeiter’, a research report written in late 1892 and published on January 15, 1893, on the results of the ‘Survey on the Situation of East of the Elbe River Rural Workers’, Max Weber introduces the key concept of Arbeitsversfassung. This term can be conceived as the constitution and condition of labor relations. One dimension of this concept refers to the legal bond between employers and the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/806/image/coversmallMax Weber on Argentina: Wheat and Semi-Barbarism2026-04-23text/htmlen-USMax Weber on Argentina: Wheat and Semi-Barbarism2026-04-232026TWOProject MUSE®781052026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-23Democracy against Bureaucracy: the Russian Case
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The current political situation appears to represent a radical departure from the deference accorded to elites allied with the modern bureaucratic state and to their opinions: a lack of deference stigmatized as ‘populism’. The situation has parallels in Max Weber’s time and in his writings, parallels which are of course far from exact. But there are many continuing themes, some of which point to important features of modern and particularly post-war American and European political life in general. One is the return of constitutional issues. The other is the ‘populist’ response to bureaucracy and bureaucratic rule. The international and comparative level points to other parallels. The late nineteenth century up to
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/806/image/coversmallDemocracy against Bureaucracy: the Russian Case2026-04-23text/htmlen-USDemocracy against Bureaucracy: the Russian Case2026-04-232026TWOProject MUSE®290602026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-23Max Weber goes to Silicon Valley: From Dogelectics to the Antichrist
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‘Dogelectics’ is my whimsical name for the organizational logic underwriting Elon Musk’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ (DOGE) that US President Donald Trump empowered at the start of his second term in office to streamline the operations of the federal bureaucracy. It aims to undo the organizational logic of Max Weber’s (1946b) classic account of bureaucratic governance. Key to understanding the historic appeal of bureaucracy as an organizational logic is its aspiration to convert society into a concrete version of an axiomatic system, which has provided the gold standard of rationality in the West, at least since Euclid’s Elements. And while Weber himself cites Egyptian and Chinese precedents for
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/806/image/coversmallMax Weber goes to Silicon Valley: From Dogelectics to the Antichrist2026-04-23text/htmlen-USMax Weber goes to Silicon Valley: From Dogelectics to the Antichrist2026-04-232026TWOProject MUSE®881712026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-23Remembering Johannes Wei߆ 3 July 1941–24 September 2025
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The internationally renowned Max Weber researcher Johannes Weiß passed away on 24 September 2025. Weiß studied philosophy, psychology and sociology in Cologne and Freiburg and received his doctorate in 1969 from the University of Cologne under René König and Ludwig Landgrebe with a thesis on Arnold Gehlen’s theory of institutions, and published as a book by Rombach-Verlag. In 1975, he qualified as a professor at the University of Duisburg with a book on the work of Max Weber, which was published in the same year with the title Max Webers Grundlegung der Soziologie. From 1969 onwards, Weiß worked as a research assistant and academic advisor at the Duisburg campus of the Ruhr University of Education, which later was
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