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project the subtle segmentations of discipline onto the confused space of internment, combine it with the methods of analytical distribution proper to power, individualize the excluded, but use procedures of individualization to mark exclusion — this is what was operated regularly by disciplinary power from the beginning of the nineteenth century
The treatment of labour as a calling became as characteristic of the modern worker as the corresponding attitude toward acquisition of the business man.
Micki McGee • Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life
In 1917, the sociologist Max Weber argued that “the fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world
Morgan Meis • The Philosopher Who Believes in Living Things
In fact, though, Weaver was not so much antiliberal as antimodern. This shows itself, for example, in his discussion of private property. He praises private property as “the last metaphysical right.” But although he clearly appreciates the place of private property in fostering liberty and forestalling the tyranny of the state, his defense is actua
... See moreRichard M. Weaver • Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition
The God of Calvinism demanded of his believers not single good works, but a life of good works combined into a unified system.
Max Weber • The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Government, he explains, has a “threefold right and duty”: first, to adjudicate disputes between spheres, “compel[ling] mutual regard for the boundary-lines of each”; second, to defend the weak against the strong within each sphere; third, to exercise the coercive power necessary to guarantee that citizens “bear personal and financial burdens for t
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Mark Bartling
linkedin.comIn an autobiographical essay called “Up From Liberalism” (1958), Weaver recalls that in his undergraduate years at the University of Kentucky earnest professors had him “persuaded entirely that the future was with science, liberalism, and equalitarianism.”