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MAX WEBER STUDIES Editor Professor Sam Whimster (London) Associate Editors: Dr Austin Harrington (Leeds), Prof Duncan Kelly (Cambridge) Review Editor: Associate Professor Joshua Derman (Hong Kong) Editorial Board Professor Martin Albrow (London), Professor Peter Baehr (Hong Kong), Professor Hinnerk Bruhns (Paris), Professor Hans Henrik Bruun (Copenhagen), Professor David Chalcraft (Liverpool), Dr Xiangqun Chang (London), Professor Sven Eliæson (Uppsala), Dr A’gnes Erde’lyi (Budapest), Dr Jean-Pierre Grossein (Marseille), Dr Edith Hanke (Munich), Professor Dirk Kaesler (Marburg), Pro- fessor S tephen Kalberg (Boston, MA), Professor Thomas Kemple (Vancouver, BC), Professor Sung Ho Kim (Seoul), Professor Rainer Lepsius† (Heidelberg), Professor Klaus Lichtblau (Frankfurt), Sérgio da Mata (Ouro Preto, Brazil), Álvaro Morcillo Laiz (Berlin), Professor Masahiro Noguchi (Tokyo), D r Dr David Owen (Southampton, UK), Professor Kari Palonen (Jyväskylä, Finland), Professor Gian- franco Poggi (Trento, Italy), Professor Larry Ray (Canterbury, UK), Professor Guenther Roth† (New York), Professor Lawrence Scaff (Detroit), Professor Ralph Schroeder (Oxford), Professor Wolfgang Schwentker (Osaka), Professor Alan Scott (New South Wales), Professor Alan Sica (Pennsylvania), Victor Strazzeri (Bern), Professor Richard Swedberg (Ithaca), Dr Keith Tribe (Worcester, UK), Pro- fessor Stephen Turner (Tampa, FL), Professor Johannes Weiss (Kassel, Germany), Professor Eduardo W eisz (Buenos Aires), Professor Gina Zabludovsky (Mexico City) Max Weber Studies is published twice a year in January and July. 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Indexing and Abstracting: This journal is indexed and abstracted by EBSCO Publishing, 10 Estes Street, PO Box 682, Ipswich MA01 938, USA (www.epnet.com), and also in Sociological Abstracts, Social Ser- vices Abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstacts and Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts pub- lished by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, 7428 Trade Street, PO Box 22206, San Diego, CA 92121,USA (www.csa.com). © Max Weber Studies 2020 ISSN 1470-8078 (print) 2056-4074 (online) Vol. 20.1 January 2020 Contents List of Contributors 5 Editorial Sam Whimster 6-7 Science, Rationalization, and the Persistence of Enchantment Eduardo Weisz 8-24 Max Weber and the Mandate of Heaven Wolfgang Drechsler 25-56 Between Translations and Monographs: An Exploratory Analysis of Secondary Literature on Max Weber-Reception in the Chinese Context Po-Fang Tsai 57-81 Reply to Frank J. Lechner’s ‘Versions of Vocation’ John Dreijmanis 82-86 Obituary: Guenther Roth, 1931–2019 Stephen Kalberg 87-90 Book Reviews 91-111 Bruce Douglass, The Iron Cage Revisited: Max Weber in the Neoliberal Era Omar Kassem Talcott Parsons, Kapitalismus bei Max Weber—zur Rekonstruktion eines fast vergessenen Themas Helmut Staubmann Jack Barbalet, Confucianism and the Chinese Self: Re-examining Max Weber’s China Dongsheng Zang Notes for Contributors 112 [MWS 20.1 (2020) 5] ISSN 1470-8078 doi: 10.15543/maxweberstudies.20.1.5 List of Contributors Wolfgang Drechsler is Professor of Governance at TalTech – Tallinn U niversity of Technology, Ragnar Nurkse Institute of Innovation and Governance; Honorary Professor of University College London, Insti- tute of Innovation and Public Purpose; and Associate and Member of the Advisory Board at Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. [email protected] Stephen Kalberg is Professor of Sociology at Boston University. His Understanding Civilizations. A Weberian Guide is forthcoming (Rout- ledge) in 2020. Po-Fang Tsai is Associate Professor of the Graduate Institute of Humanities in Medicine (GIHM), Taipei Medical University, Taipei, T aiwan (R.O.C.). His main area of interest concerns legal and cul- tural sociology, medical education and medical humanities, and Max W eber studies. Having articles appeared in Max Weber Studies, Journal of Sociology, and Taiwan Journal of East Asian Studies, since 2010 he has focused on Weber’s concept of traditional Chinese law and the recep- tion history of Max Weber in the Chinese context. In recent years, his research started from a Weberian viewpoint to analyze the evolution of citizenship in the Chinese context during the late Qing dynasty and the early Republican period. Eduardo Weisz is Professor at the Sociology Department of the Universidad de Buenos Aires, where he is in charge of a subject and research group centered on Max Weber. He has published and edited several books on different aspects of Weber’s legacy, includ- ing Viejos dioses, nuevos dioses. Política y religión a partir de Max Weber (edited with P. Lambruschini and J.I. Trovero, 2019), Max Weber en Iberoamérica (edited with Á. Morcillo, 2016) and Racionalidad y tra- gedia (2011). He is also author of a number of articles and chapters of books on Weber. © Max Weber Studies 2020, Global Policy Institute, University House, Coventry University London, 109 Middlesex Street, London E1 7JF. [MWS 20.1 (2020) 6-7] ISSN 1470-8078 doi: 10.15543/maxweberstudies.20.1.6 Editorial Sam Whimster I magine you are an American postgraduate embarked on the aca- demic equivalent of a European grand tour. Studying first in Vienna and then in Heidelberg you start taking notes on some of the leading names - Georg von Below, Werner Sombart, and Max Weber - and this is five years after Weber’s death. You think you are in the field of economic history but in fact you are breaking into a debate about the origins of modern capitalism. Sombart’s output is striking and he puts forward the novel idea that the Crusades unleashed a lust for treasure and destabilised the medieval static and organic world- view. An ‘essay’ by Max Weber disputes the motivation, substitut- ing an intricate argument about the redefining of Beruf in terms of obsessive economic activity as obeisance to a hidden and impersonal god. Conduct of life, religious practice, culture and thought itself falls under the spell of the Puritans’ god, and asceticism descends like a hoar frost on a merry and magical world. T hat student was Talcott Parsons (as outlined in the new book edited by Uta Gerhardt) and the more he pulled on this thread the deeper and wider the analysis became. Eduardo Weisz reveals, in his account of ‘Wissenschaft als Beruf’, the religious roots of scientific voca- tion. The whole process of rationalization begins with ancient Judaism and ends with ascetic Protestantism, giving birth to the disenchanted modern world, one governed by calculation and science. Puritan- ism opens the behavioural route to modern capitalism, and religion and superstition incubate ratio. Scientists should not ignore the non- rational forces that gave birth to their profession: ‘They become deci- sive in Weber’s commitment to salvaging a place for humanity in an increasingly bureaucratized world.’ John Dreijmanis reminds us that Beruf is the crucial concept that translators face. Weber travelled to China in translations, beginning in the 1980s. The process is charted by Dr Tsai. Weber was both authority, as the © Max Weber Studies 2020, Global Policy Institute, University House, Coventry University London, 109 Middlesex Street, London E1 7JF. Editorial 7 alternative to Marx, but also critic
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