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Max Weber, Power, Interpretativism, Herrschaft, ethics of responsibility, legitimacyCopyright (c) 2015 Stefano GUZZINI
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Abstract
The article takes a stance in the Weber reception which tries to see him mainly as a forerunner
of an empirical social science and a causal conception of power as in the Dahlian tradition.
It will argue and confirm Raymond Aron’s take that, to the contrary, his social science
is profoundly imbued by philosophical aims: ‘This interpretation of the relation between
science and politics leads to a certain philosophy which at the time was not yet called
“existential[ist]”, but which belongs to this current so named today.’ Hence, rather than only
seeing his sociology as a way to demarcate the specificity of the social investigation from
both normative theory and the natural sciences –which it certainly did – the following article
follows those who see his methodological and sociological decisions as part of a political and
ethical endeavour.
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