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Moderne und Askese Über ihr Verhältnis nach Max Weber und Norbert Elias

  • Alois Hahn und Matthias Hoffmann
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 23. September 2010
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Abstract

In this article Weber’s famous theory concerning “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism” is taken as a theory of civilization. It is shown that in his analysis of ascetic Puritanism, and also of the Calvinistic doctrine of predestination, Weber comes to depict the principle of self-control as the main feature of the Puritan which makes him “the father of modern self-discipline”. Self-discipline in turn is the principal ability of modern man in Norbert Elias’ theory of civilization. But all these categories that Elias uses to describe the status of being civilized – self-control, control of emotion, methodical moderation of spontaneity, punctuality etc. – already appear in the work of Max Weber in his attempt to explain the religious genesis of such attitudes.

Published Online: 2010-09-23
Published in Print: 2010-09

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