Max Weber, who is one of the most influential social scientist of the Imperial Germany, had a very pessimistic view about his time and his country. He had a insight about the ambivalence of modernity, and bureaucracy was one of the best example of such ambivalence. He pointed out that the bureaucrac...
Max Weber, who is one of the most influential social scientist of the Imperial Germany, had a very pessimistic view about his time and his country. He had a insight about the ambivalence of modernity, and bureaucracy was one of the best example of such ambivalence. He pointed out that the bureaucracy was irreversible process because of its technical superiority, but he also concerned that humanity could be subjugated to the mechanical aspect within it.
From this point of view, Weber saw the politics of the Imperial Germany so critically. He regarded German politics as a totally bureaucratic under the negative influence of Bismarck, and thus argued that it could not produce a true leader. Specifically, he suggested the political leadership vacuum, the lethargy of the bourgeois class, political parties and parliament as a main problem in German politics.
Weber saw the politics Bismark and Willhelm II, the two major leadership of Imperial Germany, so critically. Bismarck was the main culprit in bureaucratizing German politics by weakening parliament and political parties and removing political leaders. Without a political leader to control the improper rule of the monarch, wilhelmine Germany faced a crisis both domestically and internationally.
In this crisis situation, the political parties of the Imperial Germany did not provide a suitable solution. Weber regarded the three major politcal classes of German society―Junkers, Bourgeois, Workers― as flawed. Junkers and conservative parties are the source of the problem, and their vested interests had to disappear. Bourgeois and Workers who should be alternatives were immature.
Weber tried to find a solution of these problems in parliament. He saw the seperation of legislative and administrative power is the main problem of German politics. So he insisited that the power of the parliament should be expanded. To him, the model of this parliamentarization process was a Britain. By the introduction of british parliamentarism. It was he argued that the introduction of British parliamentarism could lead to the information of true poltical leaders and the control of the administrative bureaucats by the parliament.
This study also attempted to highlight the German elements appeared from Weber’s perspective. The mental elements of the fin-de-siecle Germany, such as German liberalism, Bildungbürgertum, Staatswissenschaft, Kulturpessimus, had a profound influence on the formation of Weber’s political perspective. German Social Historians, especially Wolfgang Mommsen, have emphasized the irrationality and the abnormality of these features. Against to this Sonderweg perspective, this study tried to normalize the German mentality and just to understand Max Weber’s perception of contemporary politics itself.
Max Weber, who is one of the most influential social scientist of the Imperial Germany, had a very pessimistic view about his time and his country. He had a insight about the ambivalence of modernity, and bureaucracy was one of the best example of such ambivalence. He pointed out that the bureaucracy was irreversible process because of its technical superiority, but he also concerned that humanity could be subjugated to the mechanical aspect within it.
From this point of view, Weber saw the politics of the Imperial Germany so critically. He regarded German politics as a totally bureaucratic under the negative influence of Bismarck, and thus argued that it could not produce a true leader. Specifically, he suggested the political leadership vacuum, the lethargy of the bourgeois class, political parties and parliament as a main problem in German politics.
Weber saw the politics Bismark and Willhelm II, the two major leadership of Imperial Germany, so critically. Bismarck was the main culprit in bureaucratizing German politics by weakening parliament and political parties and removing political leaders. Without a political leader to control the improper rule of the monarch, wilhelmine Germany faced a crisis both domestically and internationally.
In this crisis situation, the political parties of the Imperial Germany did not provide a suitable solution. Weber regarded the three major politcal classes of German society―Junkers, Bourgeois, Workers― as flawed. Junkers and conservative parties are the source of the problem, and their vested interests had to disappear. Bourgeois and Workers who should be alternatives were immature.
Weber tried to find a solution of these problems in parliament. He saw the seperation of legislative and administrative power is the main problem of German politics. So he insisited that the power of the parliament should be expanded. To him, the model of this parliamentarization process was a Britain. By the introduction of british parliamentarism. It was he argued that the introduction of British parliamentarism could lead to the information of true poltical leaders and the control of the administrative bureaucats by the parliament.
This study also attempted to highlight the German elements appeared from Weber’s perspective. The mental elements of the fin-de-siecle Germany, such as German liberalism, Bildungbürgertum, Staatswissenschaft, Kulturpessimus, had a profound influence on the formation of Weber’s political perspective. German Social Historians, especially Wolfgang Mommsen, have emphasized the irrationality and the abnormality of these features. Against to this Sonderweg perspective, this study tried to normalize the German mentality and just to understand Max Weber’s perception of contemporary politics itself.
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