Book Description
"Under Weber's Shadow" presents an extended critical
evaluation of the social and political thought of Jurgen Habermas,
Hannah Arendt and Alasdair MacIntyre. Although hailing from very
different philosophical traditions, these theorists all take as their
starting-point Max Weber's seminal diagnosis of late modernity, the view
that the world-historic processes of rationalization and disenchantment
are paradoxical in promising freedom yet threatening servitude under
the 'iron cage' of instrumental reason. However, each rejects his
pessimistic understanding of the grounds and possibilities of political
life, accusing him of complicity in the very realities he sought to
resist. Seeking to move beyond Weber's monological view of the self, his
subjectivism and his identification of the political with domination,
they offer alternative, intersubjective conceptions of the subject,
ethics and politics that allow for positive future possibilities. But
this incontrovertible gain, it is argued, comes at the cost of
depoliticizing key arenas of human endeavour and of neglecting the
reality of struggle and contestation. Engaging with important current
debates and literature, Keith Breen provides a rigorous analysis of the
work of Habermas, Arendt, MacIntyre and Weber and a highly accessible
and original intervention within contemporary social and political
thought. "Under Weber's Shadow" will therefore be of interest to
students and researchers alike within the areas of social and political
theory, as well as those within the disciplines of ethics, sociology and
philosophy.
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