Of overgrown children and last men: Nietzsche’s critique and max weber’s cultural science
Of overgrown children and last men: Nietzsche’s critique and max weber’s cultural science
The purpose of this cssay is to illustrate the Nietzschean form of the ethicalcharacter of Max Weber's essay Science äs a vocation and, more generally, of Weber'sunderstanding of the direction, meaning, limits and method of cultural science. In doing so, it seeks to further develop the claim that an appreciarion of thesalience of Nietzsche is a necessary condition of an adequate understanding ofthe ethical character of the work of Max Weber not simply in terms of topicsand themes but also with regard to aim, concepts and method. Such is necessarybecause, although it is now more or less accepted that, äs Scaff puts it, "theentire meaning of Weber's melancholy meditations on the 'modern soul' presup-poses the paths in thought traversed by Nietzsche" (1989: 133), it remains thecase that most work of this topic focuses on the thematic continuities betweenNietzsche and Weber (for example, Fleischmann 1964, Hennis 1988, Owen1991, Scaff 1989, Schroeder 1987) rather than the analytic continuities (but seeOwen 1994, Strong 1988 and 1992, Warren 1994). To achieve this end, the essayfocuses on Weber's explicitly Nietzschean dismissal of the understanding ofscience äs a way to happiness and shows how an appreciation of just what isinvolved in this appeal to Nietzsche helps to clarify features of Weber's accountof cultural science which otherwise remain obscure.
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Owen, David
9fc71bca-07d1-44af-9248-1b9545265a58
31 December 2000
Owen, David
9fc71bca-07d1-44af-9248-1b9545265a58
Owen, David
(2000)
Of overgrown children and last men: Nietzsche’s critique and max weber’s cultural science.
Nietzsche-Studien, 29 (1), .
(doi:10.1515/9783110244472.252).
Abstract
The purpose of this cssay is to illustrate the Nietzschean form of the ethicalcharacter of Max Weber's essay Science äs a vocation and, more generally, of Weber'sunderstanding of the direction, meaning, limits and method of cultural science. In doing so, it seeks to further develop the claim that an appreciarion of thesalience of Nietzsche is a necessary condition of an adequate understanding ofthe ethical character of the work of Max Weber not simply in terms of topicsand themes but also with regard to aim, concepts and method. Such is necessarybecause, although it is now more or less accepted that, äs Scaff puts it, "theentire meaning of Weber's melancholy meditations on the 'modern soul' presup-poses the paths in thought traversed by Nietzsche" (1989: 133), it remains thecase that most work of this topic focuses on the thematic continuities betweenNietzsche and Weber (for example, Fleischmann 1964, Hennis 1988, Owen1991, Scaff 1989, Schroeder 1987) rather than the analytic continuities (but seeOwen 1994, Strong 1988 and 1992, Warren 1994). To achieve this end, the essayfocuses on Weber's explicitly Nietzschean dismissal of the understanding ofscience äs a way to happiness and shows how an appreciation of just what isinvolved in this appeal to Nietzsche helps to clarify features of Weber's accountof cultural science which otherwise remain obscure.
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