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Albert, Gert; Bienfait, Agathe; Sigmund, Steffen; Stachura, Mateusz

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“…The essay begins by briefly exploring the 'genealogy' of the Intellectual Portrait; its contingent and temporal emergence out of Bendix's often submerged or 'shadow dialogue' with Parsons the 'absent interlocutor'; for Parsons often only becomes present in the real and imagined manifestations of his work: Parsonism, functionalism and modernisation theory. The primary objective is to explore this dialogue rather than provide a narrative account of the historical reception and disciplinary institutionalisation of Weber's work in America and Germany, or the emergence of a Weberian research paradigm or tradition; others have pursued those goals (Albert et al, 2003;Roth, 1977b;Scaff, 2006Scaff, , 2014. Nor is it possible to provide a comprehensive survey of the Intellectual Portrait or its relation to Bendix's work as a whole.…”

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The Weberian legacy: Re-reading Reinhard Bendix’sIntellectual Portraitof Max Weber

Caldwell

2016

Journal of Classical Sociology

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Published more than 50 years ago, Reinhard Bendix's classic monograph Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait (1960) exercised an important influence on the early reception of Weber's work in America. With the recent resurgence of interest in defining what constitutes 'the Weberian legacy', Bendix's work has taken on renewed significance in understanding why the reception process of translation, adaptation and assimilation in America produced conflicting interpretations of Weber's fragmented legacy. In the Intellectual Portrait, Bendix sought to provide a synthetic overview of Weber's oeuvre as a whole, effectively rebalancing the earlier interpretative focus on The Protestant Ethic and the studies of the world religions by giving equal weight to the analytical treatise of Economy and Society, which includes studies of economics, religion, politics, power, law and the state. In doing so, Bendix challenged Talcott Parsons' powerful alternative theoretical reading and helped extricate Weber's historical sociology from the claims of functionalism and modernisation theory. Despite this success, Bendix's Intellectual Portrait still exists under the shadow of Parsons' interpretative legacy, and his reading of Weber is often criticised or misrepresented, even by his admirers. For some, he was an 'instrumental Weberian' who exaggerated Weber's work on conflict and power, while for others he was a representative of 'cultural Weberianism' who focused on the autonomy of intellectual ideas and religious worldviews. In practice, Bendix, like Weber, can be adapted and assimilated into both readings. This essay reappraises the Intellectual Portrait as an important chapter in the intellectual history of Weber scholarship and interpretation. It seeks to re-evaluate Bendix as a Weber interpreter, as well as honour his status as a 'Weberian': a scholar who sought to reinterpret Weber's comparative historical sociology of the West from the viewpoint of multiple modernities. While Bendix deserves this re-evaluation, the essay concludes by suggesting a genealogical counterhistory that questions the narrative retelling of the emergence of 'the Weberian legacy' as a progressive or cumulative process leading to an internally coherent or broadly consistent research programme, method, perspective, paradigm or tradition.

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The Weberian legacy: Re-reading Reinhard Bendix’sIntellectual Portraitof Max Weber

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2016

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“…Zu diesem Zweck werde ich Webers Typologie des sozialen Handelns, die sich in den "Soziologischen Grundbegriffen" im Rahmen der "Soziologischen Kategorienlehre" (Weber 1980) findet, mit seinen Ausführungen zum Begriff der "Verantwortung" in der "Wissenschaftslehre" und in den "Gesammelten politischen Schriften" verbinden (dazu : Bienfait 1999;Bienfait 2003;Schluchter 1988Schluchter ,1996Weber 1922Weber /19801988b: 505-560 Ich schließe damit nicht nur an die in jüngster Zeit unternommenen Versuche an, die Konkurrenzfähigkeit und Überlegenheit des Weber'schen Forschungsprogramms gegenüber anderen soziologischen Paradigmen darzulegen (Albert et al 2006;Albert et al 2003), sondern auch an die Arbeiten von Hartmut Esser (vgl. Esser 1999: XVI f.;2001: 531 ff.…”

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