Events

Part of the public lectures series of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg.

Part of the workshop "FANTASIES, ANXIETY, DIFFERENCE: The figure of the other in the aftermaths of a violent political transformation"

This talk attempts to read Max Weber’s treatise on Chinese Confucianism and Taoism, contained in his magnum opus Wirtschaftsethik der Weltreligionen, as a critique of a rationalism that Weber sees as the core component of Christian puritanism and as the foundational force for the rise of capitalism in Europe and America. This talk is cautious about understanding Weber’s theoretical effort as a triumphant historicist and cultural legitimation for European capitalism in the early twentieth century. Rather it discusses a deep…