La influencia de Friedrich Nietzsche en el pensamiento político de Max Weber entre los años 1892-1898

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Nosetto, Luciano Ezequiel
Laleff Ilieff, Ricardo J.

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180 p.

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Abstract

The present thesis trace Nietzsche’s influence in Max Weber’s political thought between 1892-1898. In so far as the subject of the thesis is an influence relation, the inquiry must take two methodological precautions. The first one reminds us that an affinity between the ideas of Nietzsche and Weber does not necessarily show that the latter has read the former. The similarity between ideas -that depends on the specific interpretations of Nietzsche and Weber that we make- it is not a solid ground in order to ascribe an influence relation. The second precaution invites us not to think the influence relation as the search of the key to the influenced author’s fundamental thought. Such a task needs some presuppositions that are criticizable: the conception of an author’s work as a coherent totality, that this totality can be summarized, and that the closure of the unity of the totality of the author’s work its guaranteed by the author who influence. At the same time, such a task forgets that influences relations can be multiple, diverse, episodic and contradictory.

This both precautions lead us to a work that combines text’s ideas analysis, terminological-conceptual comparison and historical-biographical inquiry. If there is historical evidence that B knew the work of A and to the similarity of ideas is added the existence of conceptual appropriations and/or paraphrase, the possibility that A was an influence for B will be higher. But such an imputation of an influence relation should not pretend in a first moment to assert something about the totality of the work of B. The investigation must begin with the trace of the singular manifestations of the influence relation. These manifestations can be observed and precise texts where conceptual appropriations emerge with its theoretical-conceptual constellations. Beginning with the trace of singular irruptions of the influence relation allow us a more meticulous work isolating and delimiting the material of the three different approaches already mentioned: the text’s ideas analysis, the terminological-conceptual comparison, and the historical-biographical inquiry.

The thesis aims to show in what extent a part of Weber’s political thought of years 1892-1898 it’s elaborated trough the appropriation of elements that proceed from Nietzsche. In order to show this, thesis will be focused on some concepts with their respective theorical and conceptual constellations. Concepts and constellations of motives and problems that are present too not only in Nietzsche’s work, but also in the different Nietzsche reception of the discursive communities close to Max Weber. Thereby it can be found traces of Nietzsche’s influence in Max Weber in the concept of “human types [Typus Mensch]” and its gradation as high or low; in the specific interpretation of the concept of “breeding [Züchtung]” with the concern for how to breed higher human types -in the context of social-darwinism’s discussions and in direct polemic with any kind of eudemonism-; in the incitement to “become hard [werde Hart]” and accept the inevitability of struggle in life to his contemporaries; and in the critic to these for carrying the “curse of epigonism [Fluch des Epigonentums]” and a political “saturation [Sättigung]”.

Each of the three thesis’s central chapters -entitled “The decadence of human types”, “¿How breed high human types” and “The untimely critic and the political exhortation”- are devoted to trace the marks of each of these irruptions uncovering their Nietzschean precedence. The final conclusions include a general summary of what we obtained in the thesis with the question of the scope of Nietzsche’s influence on Max Weber. Weber’s appropriation of Nietzsche elements has a relevant density, to the extent that it’s in part trough Nietzsche that Weber concludes to build his own theorical position in opposition not only to historical materialism and Manchester liberalism, but also to the historical school of economics of which he was part. None of the political and theorical options surrounding supplied Weber the necessary elements to diagnose Germany’s cultural decadence, to ask how to breed a high human type and, thus, to overcome the curse of epigonism.

Título obtenido

Magister de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Teoría Política y Social

Institución otorgante

Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales

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