Basing his research on Gramsci s theory of hegemony, Rehmann provides a comprehensive socio-analysis of Max Weber s political and intellectual position in the ideological network of his time. Max Weber: Modernisation as Passive Revolution shows that, even though Weber presents his science as value-free, he is best understood as an organic intellectual of the bourgeoisie, who has the mission of providing his class with an intense ethico-political education. Viewed as a whole, his writings present a new model for bourgeois hegemony in the transition to Fordism . Weber is both a sharp critic of a passive revolution in Germany tying the bourgeois class to the interests of the agrarian class, and a proponent of a more modern version of passive revolution, which would foreclose a socialist revolution by the construction of an industrial bloc consisting of the bourgeoisie and labour aristocracy. (c) 1998 Argument Verlag GmbH, Hamburg. Translated from German Max Weber: Modernisierung als passive Revolution. Kontextstudien zu Politik Philosophie und Religion im Ubergang zum Fordismus ."

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