One of Max Weber's contemporaries described him as "a child of the Enlightenment born too late" whose work is a "vitriolic attack on religion." Subsequent Weber scholarship has largely affirmed this valuation of Weber and characterized his scholarship as a manifestation of the very disenchantment that Weber describes. In The Postmodern Significance of Max Weber's Legacy, Basit Koshul challenges this idea by showing Weber to be a postmodern thinker far ahead of his time. Koshul's reading demonstrates that Weber implicitly bridged the religion vs. science divide and offers us new directions in Weber scholarship.
Author(s): Basit Bilal Koshul
Edition: 1
Publisher: Palgrave
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 192
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Abbreviations of Weber’s Works......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
The Chapters in Brief......Page 15
1 The Disenchantment of the World and the Religion vs. Science Divide: An Enlightenment Reading of Weber......Page 22
1.1 Disenchantment as the Fate of Our Times......Page 24
1.2 The Effects of Disenchantment on Practical Rationalization......Page 30
1.3 The Effects of Disenchantment on Theoretical Rationalization......Page 41
1.4 Religion and Science in Disenchanted Times: An Interpretation of Weber......Page 47
2 Beyond the Enlightenment: Weber on the Irreducible Relationship Between Faith and Science......Page 54
2.1 The Faith Dimension of Science......Page 56
2.2 The Empirical Dimension of Faith......Page 62
2.3 Weber the Person on Religion and Science......Page 69
3 The Value of Science in a Disenchanted Age: Bridging the Fact/Value Dichotomy......Page 78
3.1 Science: A Uniquely Modern Way of Knowing......Page 80
3.2 Practical Rationalization and the Value of Science......Page 85
3.3 Theoretical Rationalization and the Value of Science......Page 89
3.4 Meaning and Knowledge: Bridging the Fact/Value Dichotomy......Page 93
4 The Constitutive Components of Scientific Inquiry: Bridging the Subject/Object Dichotomy......Page 102
4.1 The Methodenstreit: The Issues and Parties......Page 103
4.2 A Logical Flaw in the Methodenstreit......Page 109
4.3 Imputation and Ideal Type: Bridging the Subject/Object Dichotomy......Page 118
5 Disenchanting Disenchantment: Bridging the Science/Religion Dichotomy......Page 132
5.1 The Relational Character of Weber's Methodology: Some Recent Valuations......Page 136
5.2 Two Possibilities of Progress: Disenchantment and Self-Awareness......Page 142
5.3 The "Progress" of Weber Scholarship: From Disenchantment to Self-Awareness......Page 147
5.4 Weber and the Disenchanting of Disenchantment......Page 150
Endnotes......Page 166
Bibliography......Page 182
Name Index......Page 186
M......Page 188
W......Page 189
