Max Weber and Karl Marx _ Karl Lowith

MAX WEBER AND KARL MARX

Karl Lowith

2003

Preface to the new edition Bryan S.Turner

First Published 1983

Pages 142

1 Introduction 42

Statement of the problem 42

General characterisation of Weber and Marx 44

2 Weber’s interpretation of the bourgeois-capitalist

world in terms of ‘rationalisation’ 51

The starting point of Weber’s research 51

Rationality as the problematic expression of the modern world 62

Rationality as the capacity for individual responsibility

amidst universal dependency 72

3 Marx’s interpretation of the bourgeois-capitalist world

in terms of human ‘self-alienation’ 89

The historical development of the concept from Hegel through

Feuerbach to Marx 89

The economic expression of human self-alienation in the

commodity 96

The political expression of human self-alienation in bourgeois

society 102

The direct social expression of human self-alienation in the

proletariat 109

4 Weber’s critique of the materialist conception

of history 119

Weber’s indirect critique of Marx in the dispute with

Stammler 120

Weber’s critique of Marx in the sociology of religion 121

Bibliography 126

Index 129