Otto Gross and Else Jaffé and Max Weber

Whimster, Sam; Heuer, Gottfried M.

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“…In 1917, he apparently expressed his sympathy for an avant-garde project of the journal News of the Fight Against the Will of Power set out by the Anarchist Freudian, Otto Gross (see Whimster & Heuer, 1998). A year later, he proposes a Brotherhood of Workers Without Property (Wagenbach, 2003).…”

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“…Without doubt, Kafka was consistently a life-long foe of repression, a libertarian 'Socialist' in his beliefs sporting the 'red carnation' in his lapel in his youth, as many young radicals then did. In 1917, he apparently expressed his sympathy for an avant-garde project of the journal News of the Fight Against the Will of Power set out by the Anarchist Freudian, Otto Gross (see Whimster & Heuer, 1998). A year later, he proposes a Brotherhood of Workers Without Property (Wagenbach, 2003).…”

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Kafka, Weber and organization theory

Warner

2007

Human Relations

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In this article, we hope to show why examining the work of the writer, Franz Kafka (1883—1924), may enhance our understanding of organizations. In doing so, his life and achievements will be compared with Max Weber's (1864—1920). We will seek to see how their backgrounds, experiences and writing, in their respective ways, can offer analytic insights for scholars of organization vis-à-vis a number of key concepts in the field, such as bureaucracy, power and authority, rationality and lastly, alienation.

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2007

Human Relations

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“…The tumultuous nature of Weber's early years, Schluchter reaffirms, is reflected in the work from the 'lost decade' (2000: 68) and rightly leads Borchardt to remark that the 'patchiness of existing biographies and accounts of Max Weber's intellectual development is quite astonishing ' (2002: 158). For this reason, biographically informed studies of Weber continue to appear, a trend that shows no hint of subsiding (Roth, 2001;Whimster, 1995Whimster, , 1999Whimster, , 2000Whimster and Heuer, 1998), and which would seem to confirm Nietzsche's comment that a scholar's life-work constitutes a kind of unconscious memoir and personal confession (Nietzsche, 1989b: 13-14).…”

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The Many Max Webers

Sahni

2003

Journal of Classical Sociology

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Over the past four decades the field of Weberian scholarship has enjoyed a sustained period of diversification and expansion. To a considerable extent, this process has been driven by a series of attempts to unearth the 'true Weber', that is, to define his central question (Fragestellung) and outline the thematic unity (Gesamtdeutung) of his oeuvre. However, as his own conception of the inevitability of rationalization towards the irrational would predict, the result has been the proliferation of a multiplicity of Max Webers. This most important reason for his continued, and arguably dominant, sociological standing also speaks directly of the field's present-day vitality. This essay first considers what three recently published books have to say about issues of interest in Weber studies today, including subjects ranging from Weber's agrarian and physico-anthropological sociology, to his academic reception, methodological writings and relation to postmodern theory. Following this, I provide a critical commentary on the books' shared interest in the substantive underpinning of Weber's methodology, with an emphasis on the sociology of law and on his early work (pre-1898) and reception in particular, in light of current developments and areas of investigation. Lastly, I submit some concluding reflections regarding the reasons for the continuing relevance of Weber's sociology for modern social thought.

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‘The sacredness of love’ or ‘relationship as third’: otto gross' concepts of relationship today

Heuer¹

2010

Psychother. Politics Int.

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The paper focuses on three different themes to demonstrate the continuing relevance of the early psychoanalyst, Otto Gross (1877–1920), which reverberates through a number of disciplines. With some of his ideas, Gross goes way beyond modernity and post‐modernity towards a post‐postmodern revolutionizing of both individual as well as collective – political – ways of understanding relating. These are being linked to cutting‐edge discoveries in three realms: firstly, neurobiology and research into human behavioural as well as maturational processes; secondly an unusual understanding – albeit not entirely new – of political justice and, thirdly, philosophical‐analytical theories of relating. Around the time of the recent millennium, completely new concepts and ideas were formulated which both fundamentally verify some of Gross' concepts and, of course, take them further. These current ideas are also linked with regard to a possible aim: in each instance, they focus on what Otto Gross some one hundred years ago first described as the transformation of the will to power between self and other – with the aim of freeing a capacity to love, a capacity to relate that Gross always understood simultaneously as interpersonal as well as intrapersonal and intrapsychic. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Otto Gross and Else Jaffé and Max Weber

Cited by 7 publications

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Kafka, Weber and organization theory

Kafka, Weber and organization theory

The Many Max Webers

‘The sacredness of love’ or ‘relationship as third’: otto gross' concepts of relationship today

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