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Reexploring Max Weber’s Work on Confucianism with Consideration on Capitalism
Max Weber’s "Confucianism and Daoism" is one of the classics in understanding Chinese society in the West. It is often reduced to the argument that Confucian values obstructed the rise of capitalism in China. This lecture reexplores Weber’s Confucian study through an interpretive method and tends to justify Weber's arguments. First, Weber’s Confucian study must be situated within his bigger project of comparative sociology of religion, aiming at explaining the unique emergence of modern rational capitalism in Western Europe. Second, in his Confucian study Weber went beyond one-dimensional idealism and integrated institutional factors. Finally, Weber focused on a peculiar type of capitalism - modern rational capitalism, while he offered a typology of capitalisms. It can be proven that Weber’s thesis is not challenged by modern economic development in East Asia. Instead of being a Eurocentric author, Weber allowed for non-Western paths to modernity and his framework remains analytically relevant today.
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Di, 30. Juni 18.00 Uhr
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