The Postmodern Significance of Max Weber's

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.

Basit Bilal Koshul is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at Concordia College.

Acknowledgments

ix

Abbreviations of Weber's Works

xi

Introduction

1

(8)

The Chapters in Brief

2

(7)

1. The Disenchantment of the World and the Religion vs. Science Divide: An Enlightenment Reading of Weber

9

(32)

1.1 Disenchantment as the Fate of Our Times

11

(6)

1.2 The Effects of Disenchantment on Practical Rationalization

17

(11)

1.3 The Effects of Disenchantment on Theoretical Rationalization

28

(6)

1.4 Religion and Science in Disenchanted Times: An Interpretation of Weber

34

(7)

2. Beyond the Enlightenment: Weber on the Irreducible Relationship Between Faith and Science

41

(24)

2.1 The Faith Dimension of Science

43

(6)

2.2 The Empirical Dimension of Faith

49

(7)

2.3 Weber the Person on Religion and Science

56

(9)

3. The Value of Science in a Disenchanted Age: Bridging the Fact/Value Dichotomy

65

(24)

3.1 Science: A Uniquely Modern Way of Knowing

67

(5)

3.2 Practical Rationalization and the Value of Science

72

(4)

3.3 Theoretical Rationalization and the Value of Science

76

(4)

3.4 Meaning and Knowledge: Bridging the Fact/Value Dichotomy

80

(9)

4. The Constitutive Components of Scientific Inquiry: Bridging the Subject/Object Dichotomy

89

(30)

4.1 The Methodenstreit: The Issues and Parties

90

(6)

4.2 A Logical Flaw in the Methodenstreit

96

(9)

4.3 Imputation and Ideal Type: Bridging the Subject/Object Dichotomy

105

(14)

5. Disenchanting Disenchantment: Bridging the Science/Religion Dichotomy

119

(34)

5.1 The Relational Character of Weber's Methodology: Some Recent Valuations

123

(6)

5.2 Two Possibilities of Progress: Disenchantment and Self-Awareness

129

(5)

5.3 The "Progress" of Weber Scholarship: From Disenchantment to Self-Awareness

134

(3)

5.4 Weber and the Disenchanting of Disenchantment

137

(16)

Endnotes

153

(16)

Bibliography

169

(4)

Name Index

173

(2)

Subject Index

175

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