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Max Weber and Modernity's Crisis of Meaning - Coggle Diagram
Max Weber and Modernity's Crisis of Meaning
Modernity for Weber
is a rationalized world
rationalization
the process by which all the spheres of life are determined and administered by rational processes
rationalization is
secularization
capitalism relies on forms of rationality
markets need to be calculable and efficient
weber ties the rise of capitalism to a string of calvinist theology (working hard gets you into heaven)
weber the fatalist: regardless of how we got here, there is no going back
capitalism
Weber's
Iron Cage
of modernity / capitalism
we are all influenced / shaped by capitalism, even if we are not directly part of its markets
iron cage
there is no going back. we are fixed / stuck in the institutions of capitalism
disenchantement
we become
disenchanted
beings through the expulsion of religious and magical thinking from our lives
prefer science than god
the problem is that science CANNOT answer the question of why we exist, yet it has also disproved religion as a mythological story
polytheism of values
society becomes separate
spheres / systems of values
with their own logic. These spheres are often
incompatible