Political Style of Thinking Essays on Max Weber [Paperback]

The essays set Webers political thought in relationship to his predecessors (Constant, Bagehot, Nietzsche), contemporaries (Sombart, Schmitt, Benjamin), later (Arendt, Sartre) or contemporary scholars (Skinner, Koselleck) and current Weber studies (Hennis, Scaff, Ghosh).Max Weber studies have been radically transformed since the 1980s. The author continues this revision by reading Weber as a thoroughly political thinker. Webers key concept is Chance, a concept that allows us to study politics as contingent activity and to understand both the actions of politicians and the presence of the political aspect in research. This collection contains essays from 1999 to 2014 and a new introduction. The first part deals with Webers concept of politics and the politician as an ideal type, the second discusses Webers reinterpretations of key political concepts of freedom, democracy, parliament, nation and the state. The third part links Webers concept of objectivity with the parliamentary style of politics. The essays set Webers political thought in relationship to his predecessors (Constant, Bagehot, Nietzsche), contemporaries (Sombart, Schmitt, Benjamin), later (Arendt, Sartre) or contemporary scholars (Skinner, Koselleck) and current Weber studies (Hennis, Scaff, Ghosh).Acknowledgements viiChapter One  Introduction: Max Weber as a Political Thinker 1PART I  POLITICS AND POLITICIANS  WEBERIAN THEMES 15Chapter Two  Four Times of Politics: Policy, Polity, Politicking andPoliticisation 17Chapter Three  Politics or the Political? An Historical Perspective on aContemporary Non-Debate 29Chapter Four  Sombart and Weber on Professional Politicians 39Chapter Five  Max Webers Three Types of Professional Politicians:A Rhetorical Approach 53PART II  WEBER AS A CONCEPTUAL POLITICIAN 71Chapter Six  Max Webers Reconceptualisation of Freedom 73Chapter Seven  Was Max Weber a Nationalist? A Study in the Rhetoricof Conceptual Change 89Chapter Eight  Imagining Max Webers lã,