Weber’s City in Historiography and Globalization

Authors

  • Gerhard Dilcher Goethe Universität – Frankfurt am Main

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1825-9618/5842

Keywords:

City, Weber, Globalization, Middle Ages, Bourgeoisie, Universalism, Rationalization

Abstract

The author reconstructs the impact of Max Weber’s essay on the city in German historiography starting from the end of the Eighties. He also shows the political meaning of Weberian “discovery” of the city as the genetic nucleus of western politics, with its universalism that Weber dates back even to the meeting between the Apostles Pietro and Paolo in Antioch. The “city” is for Weber the site of theoretical and factual possibility of creating an autonomous and new right. It is certainly the birthplace of the political preponderance of the bourgeoisie, but in Weberian paradigm based on the rationalization as a typical process of western culture, it reveals a path that carries on still today in the epoch of migration and globalization.

 

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Published

2015-12-22

How to Cite

Dilcher, G. (2015). Weber’s City in Historiography and Globalization. Scienza & Politica. Per Una Storia Delle Dottrine, 27(53). https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1825-9618/5842

Issue

Vol. 27 No. 53 (2015)

Section

The City: Spaces, Times and subjects in the Global Transition (edited by Niccolò Cuppini)

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