Das palavras à vida: o prazer em Max Weber

The thesis has as its goal the discussion over the pleasure as an intellectual and personal subject for Max Weber. The main references are The Sociology of Religion, Science as a Vocation and Politics as a Vocation, Bureaucracy, The sense of "Axiological Neutrality" in Social and Economic Sciences. Many authors were researched for information about his life, with a highlight to the biography written by his wife Marianne Weber, for its great number of excerpts from letters and informal conversations. The subject "pleasure" was developed by taking into consideration the complexity of this phenomenon which happens in an ambivalent and multiple ways. In order to do that, we started from the paradigm of the complexity according to Edgar Morin's view, Georges Bataille's discussions on erotism and the antinomic comprehension of Lepegneur and Onfray, who define pleasure as a phenomenon with ambiguities, and the historical references of Peter Gay, Nobert Elias, Wolf Lepenies. In Max Weber, pleasure presents, also, this ambiguity, as his scientific approach is registering the absence of pleasure for the rise of a protestant ethic and, besides that, to support with a process of disenchantment of the world which leads us to a meaningless life. Weber goes through great changes in the last years of his life. In this period he includes in his comments the subjects "erotism" and "arts" with the possibility of escaping from modem everyday routine that affects the individual's existential freedom. However, his ambiguous position about these possibilities take him to consider that a situation o f personal confrontation, considered heroical, once, in his opinion, each one accepts the consequences o f their acts and builds their values to give a meaning to their own existence. The pleasure in Weber is, above ali aspects, intellectual and existential: side by side with the routine, bureaucracy and disenchantment ofthe world was the possibility of charisma, vocation and passion. However, always he related these characteristics to the discomfort that the modem world presented to men, he, as a scientist, was ethical. This is the main argument ofthis thesis

Foucault, Weber, neoliberalism and the politics of governmentality

This paper argues that Michel Foucault’s lectures that form The Birth of Biopolitics owe a considerable debt to the thought of Max Weber, particularly in their analysis of how different socio-legal regimes shape distinctive national forms of capitalist economies, and the role that is played by social and economic institutions in the shaping of individual identities. This is in contrast to a common interpretation of Foucault’s account of neoliberalism, which synthesizes his work into neo-Marxist notions of hegemony and capitalist domination. It also identifies Foucault’s approach to neoliberalism as an exploratory one, which considers insights into how a particular relationship between ideas and institutional practices may help in imagining socialist forms of government practice.

Regulation beyond government: Weber, Foucault and the liberal governance of media content

This paper steps back from the question of how regulation of digital media content occurs, and whether it can be effective, to consider the rationales that inform regulation, and the ethics and practices associated with content regulation. It will be argued that Max Weber's account of bureaucratic expertise remains relevant to such discussions, particularly insofar as it intersects with Michel Foucault's concept of governmentality, and contemporary applications of the notion of 'governing at a distance'. The nature of the challenges to media regulators presented by online environments, and by digital and social media, are considered in depth, but it is argued that the significance of regulatory innovations that respond to such challenges should not be underestimated, nor should the continuing national foundations of media regulation. It will also discuss the relevance of the concept of 'soft law' to contemporary regulatory practice.

Les sciences sociales devraient-elles être neutres? : le rôle des chercheurs(ses) face à la normativité du discours éthique et politique, de Weber à Putnam.

L'objectif de ce mémoire est de comprendre la neutralité axiologique non pas comme une exigence épistémologique, mais plutôt comme un idéal éducationnel. Max Weber propose une science basée sur la description factuelle, de laquelle on exclut la formulation de jugements de valeur. Pour l'auteur, il est préférable de séparer les jugements descriptifs des jugements évaluatifs dans le but de préserver l'autonomie intellectuelle des étudiants. Comme il serait contraire au principe d'autonomie de laisser le professeur influencer et convaincre ses étudiants, de façon partisane, d'adhérer à certaines thèses normatives, Weber propose un mécanisme pour éviter que le professeur n'influence ses étudiants de manière illégitime. Les critiques contemporaines de la neutralité axiologique, en particulier celles de Sen et Putnam, voient dans le critère de neutralité un rejet de l'entrelacement logique des faits et des valeurs. Ils critiquent la supposée subjectivité des valeurs et, ce faisant, défendent une conception enrichie de la science où les valeurs éthiques sont présentes. Weber n'a jamais défendu qu'il était impossible de mener une analyse à la fois descriptive et normative. Seulement, on doit s'interroger sur les lieux où s'exprime la normativité, et s'assurer que toutes les conditions sont présentes pour qu'une discussion normative tende réellement à l'objectivité.

Na 1 Nachlass Max Horkheimer, 510 - Korrespondenzen mit Theodor W. Adono (p. VI 2, 1 - 212)

Briefwechsel zwischen Theodor W. Adono, Gretel Adorno und Max Horkheimer, 1955-1957; 1 Brief der Gesellschaft für soziale Betriebspraxis an Theodor W. Adorno und Max Horkheimer, 30.08.1955; 1 Brief der Gesellschaft für soziale Betriebspraxis mbH in Düsseldorf an das Rationalisierungs-Kuratorium der Deutschen Wirtschaft RG Mensch und Arbeit in Frankfurt; 1 Brief von Theodor W. Adorno an Elisabeth Calvelli-Adorno, 19.08.1955; 5 Briefe zwischen Alice Maier und Theodor W. Adorno, 1955-1956; 2 Briefe von Theodor W. Adorno an Frederick Polock, 1955; 1 Brief von Theodor W. Adorno an Herrn Ritter, Dekan der Philosphischen Fakultät der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, 24.05.1955; 1 Brief von Marianne Regensburger an Theodor W. Adorno, 1955; 1 Brief von Marianne Regensburger an Walter Abendroth, Berlin-Schöneberg, 11.05.1955; 1 Brief von Theodor W. Adorno an Herrn von Staa, 24.03.1955; 1 Brief von Theodor W. Adorno an Herrn Kux, 08.03.1955; 1 Briefentwurf von Theodor W. Adorno an Gottfried Weber, Dekan der Philosophischen Fakultät der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, 1956; 1 Brief von Theodor W. Adorno an Renato Solmi, 04.09.1956; 1 Brief von Theodor W. Adorno an das Kuratorium der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main, 27.03.1956;

Na 1 Nachlass Max Horkheimer, 636 - "The Relation between Philosophy and Sociology in the Work of Wilhelm Dilthey" und "Autoritärer Staat" (p. IX 12.1-7-IX 13.1-7)

"The Relation between Psychology and Sociology in the Work of Wilhelm Dilthey" (GS 4, S. 352-370), veröffentlicht in Studies in Philosophy and Social Science VIII, 1939/40, S. 430-443, Vortragstext englische Fassung, Typoskript mit eigenhändigen Korrekturen, 18 Blatt, deutsche Fassung, Typoskript mit eigenhändigen Korrekturen, 20 Blatt; Vorlage zur Eröffnung der Vortragsveranstaltung, Typoskript, 1 Blatt; Über das Verhältnis Diltheys zu Max Weber; über die Widersprüche bei Dilthey; zur Logik geisteswissenschaftlichen Verstehens (= Vorarbeiten zum Vortrag? Vorbereitungen zu Diskussionsbeiträgen?), a) englische Fassung, Typoskript, 5 Blatt, b) deutsche Fassung, Typoskript, 6 Blatt; N.N.: handschriftliche Notiz für die Diskussion, 1 Blatt; Exzerpte zum Werk Wilhelm Diltheys, Typoskripte, 12 Blatt; Zitate aus Schriften Wilhelm Diltheys, Typoskripte, 12 Blatt; Deutsche Übersetzung des Aufsatzes von Kurt Jürgen Huch und Alfred Schmidt, mit dem Titel: "Der Zusammenhang zwischen Psychologie und Soziologie im Werk Wilhelm Diltheys", veröffentlicht in: Max Horkheimer, "Kritische Theorie", Bd. II, 1968, S.273-291, Typoskript mit handschriftlichen Korrekturen, 29 Blatt; "Autoritärer Staat" (GS 5, S. 293-319), Aufsatz, datiert: Frühjahr 1940, veröffentlicht als vervielfältigtes Typoskript in "Walter Benjamin zum Gedächtnis", herausgegeben vom Institut für Sozialforschung, Los Angeles 1942, S. 123-161;

Na 1 Nachlass Max Horkheimer, 618 - Typoskripte von Friedrich Pollock zur "Frankfurter Soziologischen Schule" und anderen soziologischen und philosophischen Themen (p. VIII 24-VIII 28a)

"Pareto und die 'Frankfurter' Solziologische Schule" (GS 11, S. 196-201). Über Gottfried Salomon und Heinz Otto Ziegler, 26.10.1929, Typoskript, 7 Blatt; Teil eines Manuskripts für eine Vorlesung im Volksbildungsheim, Geschichtsphilosophie, Psychoanalyse, Wintersemester 1929/30, Manuskript, 1 Heft, 15 Blatt, und 1 zusätzliches Blatt; Friedrich Pollock: Kollegheft zur Vorlesung von Max Horkheimer "Einführung in die Philosophie und ihre Geschichte", Sommersemester 1930, eigenhändige Notizen, 1 Heft, 6 Blatt; Friedrich Pollock: Kollegheft zu Übungen von Max Horkheimer über Grundlagen der Sozialphilosophie; vor allem über Heinrich Rickert, Max Weber und Max Scheler, Wintersemester 1930/31 im Volsbildungsheim, eigenhändige Notizen, 1 Heft, 24 Blatt, und 13 zusätzliche Blätter, ausserdem beiliegend: G. Biehahn: Protokoll zum Seminar von Max Horkheimer über Geschichtsphilosophie, Typoskript, 3 Blatt; Friedrich Pollock: Notizen zu den 'Sozialphilosophischen Übungen' von Max Horkheimer, über Hegel und Marx, Sommersemester 1931, 18 Blatt; "Hegel und das Problem der Metaphysik" (GS 2, S. 295-308; GS 11, S. 221-229), 1932, Typoskript mit eigenhändigen Korrekturen, 23 Blatt; sowie Stichworte zu Hegel, neuere Metaphysik, historischer Materialismus, Typoskript, 1 Blatt;

Enhancing the Expressiveness of the Bunge-Wand-Weber Ontology

In practical terms, conceptual modeling is at the core of systems analysis and design. The plurality of modeling methods available has however been regarded as detrimental, and as a strong indication that a common view or theoretical grounding of modeling is wanting. This theoretical foundation must universally address all potential matters to be represented in a model, which consequently suggested ontology as the point of departure for theory development. The Bunge–Wand–Weber (BWW) ontology has become a widely accepted modeling theory. Its application has simultaneously led to the recognition that, although suitable as a meta-model, the BWW ontology needs to be enhanced regarding its expressiveness in empirical domains. In this paper, a first step in this direction has been made by revisiting BUNGE’s ontology, and by proposing the integration of a “hierarchy of systems” in the BWW ontology for accommodating domain specific conceptualizations.