Symbolic revolutions. Mobilizing a neglected Bourdieusian concept for historical sociology

Petzke, Martin

doi:10.1007/s11186-021-09467-9

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“…On the other hand, for Weber, the historicist objective of knowing and understanding the historical phenomenon with all its peculiarities was undoubtedly not disjoint from theoretical and methodological attention to typological generalizations, which, unlike historical and ideographic approaches, reflect the logic itself of the social sciences (Weber [1904(Weber [ ] 1949. 12 Seeking to combine interpretive description and causal explanation, the idiographic and the nomothetic, generalism and specialization, Max Weber can be seen as occupying a middle-ground position-or offering a dialectical synthesis (Petzke 2022)-between the "Mandarins" and the "Modernists" in the German field of social and political sciences of his time (Steinmetz 2009;Ringer 1969Ringer , 2004.…”

Section: The Theory Of Charisma and Its Dialectic Elements In Weberia...mentioning

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Reviving Metapersonal Charisma in Max Weber

Barisione

2023

Political Theory

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More than a century after Max Weber’s Vocation Lectures, the idea of charisma is still commonly associated with a leader’s personal qualities. This personalistic and—as I argue—simplistic understanding of the Weberian theory of charisma was perpetuated, especially in leadership studies, during the twentieth century by political scientists, social psychologists, and sociologists. Generally overlooked is the fact that the Weberian notion of charisma comprises diverse and fundamental metapersonal meanings that transcend individual qualities and revolve, among other things, around a specific combination of public positions, temporal contexts, and collective expectations. After framing the ambivalence of the concept of charisma within more fundamental and fertile ambivalences of Max Weber’s epistemological approach, this article demonstrates that metapersonal understandings of charisma actually prevailed in Weber’s writings prior to his late—and pedagogical— Vocation Lectures and series of newspaper articles. In the final part, I deduce from Weber’s writings a repertoire of metapersonal forms of charisma in politics, and I conclude that, when contemporary political leaders seek to activate such charismatic processes in order to pursue essentially charismatic forms of legitimation, important implications can arise regarding the unstable balance among liberal democracies, populisms, and authoritarianisms.

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Section: The Theory Of Charisma and Its Dialectic Elements In Weberia...mentioning

confidence: 99%