The mournful cage: Max Weber as a hunger artist

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dc.contributor.authorReddekop, Jarrad
dc.contributor.supervisorKroker, Arthur
dc.date.accessioned2008-01-17T01:08:30Z
dc.date.available2008-01-17T01:08:30Z
dc.date.copyright2007en_US
dc.date.issued2008-01-17T01:08:30Z
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Political Science
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractMany accounts of Max Weber’s thought would seek to portray him as a theorist of responsibility or “re-enchantment” – as one who can confirm for us the appropriateness of a liberal position given the conditions of life as moderns, thus preserving the possibility of a renewed project of management at every turn. Such a reading may well be comforting today, insofar as it enables a reconciliation to the constellations of technological thinking within which we already find ourselves engaged. Over and against such accounts, this thesis attempts to elaborate an image of Weber as a hunger artist, as one who brings into emphasis a fundamental sense of loss attendant to “modernity”, and who broods upon that loss as the condition of a more faithful reflection upon the character of being. Not only does Weber offer insight into modern conditions of research and the theorization of politics; he is one who thinks such questions in their mournful profundity, gesturing towards what cannot be carried forward within their terms. In the melancholy of his thought, it is suggested, we glimpse the contours of a horizon from which we have still not emerged.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/309
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectMax Weberen_US
dc.subjectdisenchantmenten_US
dc.subjecttechnologyen_US
dc.subjectMartin Heideggeren_US
dc.subjectnihilismen_US
dc.subjectmodernityen_US
dc.subjectrationalizationen_US
dc.subjectpoliticsen_US
dc.subjecttheologyen_US
dc.subjectmetaphysicsen_US
dc.subjectFranz Kafkaen_US
dc.subjectreligionen_US
dc.subjectmythologyen_US
dc.subjectcultureen_US
dc.subjectiron cageen_US
dc.subjecthunger artisten_US
dc.subjectmournful cageen_US
dc.subjectsubjectivityen_US
dc.subjectflight of the godsen_US
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciencesen_US
dc.titleThe mournful cage: Max Weber as a hunger artisten_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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