A Gramscian Analysis
Jan Rehmann,
Union Theological Seminary and Free University, Berlin
BRILL, 2015

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.
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