Sociology as a Science of Reality – Epistemes of the Nation – Sociology of War A “speed presentation” of doctoral and bachelor’s theses on central topics of Max Weber JOIN US on the 17th of JULY at 6pm CET!! The presentation of new research work has already become a tradition in the Weber Scholars Network. … Leer más
Un diálogo con el autor: Max Weber. Nación y Alienación de Esteban Vernik (Event in Spanish) Our next event will be a Book Presentation of Esteban Vernik’s Max Weber. Nación y Alienación and it will be held in Spanish along the author, Prof. Joaquín Abellán, Prof. Patricia Lambruschini, and Lucía Pinto who will moderate the … Leer más
The Patrimonial Assault on the State Weberian Insights into the Current Transformations of Government. We are pleased to invite you to our upcoming discussion on May 15th at 16:00 CEST with the authors of The Assault on the State. How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future (2024), Stephen Hanson and Jeffrey Kopstein,and Tomila Lankina as discussant (others to be confirmed). Current … Leer más
Max Weber and Neoliberal Bureaucratization w. Béatrice Hibou Mediator: Lucía Pinto
A Conversation on Wendy Brown’s Nihilistic Times w. Wendy Brown and Álvaro Morcillo Mediator: Victor Strazzeri
Max Weber and the founders of Socialisme ou Barbarie w. Yannkis Ktenas and Pedro T. Magalhães Mediator: Victor Strazzeri
Political Theory or Political Theology? w. Prof. Philip Manow and Pedro T. Magalhães Mediator: Prof. Joaquín Abellán and Edith Hanke
“Spanish Barbarism” Weber and Simmel on Catholicism and on Spanish Colonialism Having grown up in Prussia during the years of the Kulturkampf, Weber initially had no appreciation for Catholicism. Moreover, Weber’s Protestant Ethic (1905) seemed to turn him a defender of the Puritan sects: neither Catholics nor Lutherans had provided the historical force that had contributed decisively … Leer más
Max Weber and the Neoliberalist Threat to Democracy – Moderated by Álvaro Morcillo Laiz 28 Jan – 6pm (CET) In the present situation, increasingly unfettered markets, including markets of ideas, seem to be fueling the drive towards authoritarianism and away from democracy, in any accepted sense of the term. Many believe that the rise of … Leer más
A Conversation on Wendy Brown’s Nihilistic Times – Moderated by Álvaro Morcillo Laiz 17 Oct – 6pm (CET) “How to plot “values” within this disorienting present?» Weber bets on «the distinctly human capacity to shape or direct common life in accordance with the capacity to create value», argues Wendy Brown in Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber, her widely discussed … Leer más