doctoralThesis
Das palavras à vida: o prazer em Max Weber
Fecha
2009-03-19Registro en:
MIRANDA, Paulo Henrique Façanha de. Das palavras à vida: o prazer em Max Weber. 2009. 180f. Tese (Doutorado em Ciências Sociais) - Centro de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2009.
Autor
Miranda, Paulo Henrique Façanha de
Resumen
The thesis has as its goal the discussion over the pleasure as an intellectual and
personal subject for Max Weber. The main references are The Sociology of Religion,
Science as a Vocation and Politics as a Vocation, Bureaucracy, The sense of "Axiological
Neutrality" in Social and Economic Sciences. Many authors were researched for
information about his life, with a highlight to the biography written by his wife Marianne
Weber, for its great number of excerpts from letters and informal conversations. The
subject "pleasure" was developed by taking into consideration the complexity of this
phenomenon which happens in an ambivalent and multiple ways. In order to do that, we
started from the paradigm of the complexity according to Edgar Morin's view, Georges
Bataille's discussions on erotism and the antinomic comprehension of Lepegneur and
Onfray, who define pleasure as a phenomenon with ambiguities, and the historical
references of Peter Gay, Nobert Elias, Wolf Lepenies. In Max Weber, pleasure presents,
also, this ambiguity, as his scientific approach is registering the absence of pleasure for the
rise of a protestant ethic and, besides that, to support with a process of disenchantment of
the world which leads us to a meaningless life. Weber goes through great changes in the
last years of his life. In this period he includes in his comments the subjects "erotism" and
"arts" with the possibility of escaping from modem everyday routine that affects the
individual's existential freedom. However, his ambiguous position about these possibilities
take him to consider that a situation o f personal confrontation, considered heroical, once, in
his opinion, each one accepts the consequences o f their acts and builds their values to give
a meaning to their own existence. The pleasure in Weber is, above ali aspects, intellectual
and existential: side by side with the routine, bureaucracy and disenchantment ofthe world
was the possibility of charisma, vocation and passion. However, always he related these
characteristics to the discomfort that the modem world presented to men, he, as a scientist,
was ethical. This is the main argument ofthis thesis