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Nietzsche and Weber on Personality and Democracy
Talay, Zeynep
Talay, Zeynep
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Nietzsche and Weber investigate modernity from the point of view of the fate of the individual. While Nietzsche asks whether it is possible to breed a human being capable of self-overcoming and self-mastery, Weber generalizes this theme and turns it into a research question: what type of human being will be forged in the future? Both thinkers doubted whether democratic political cultures could produce autonomous individuals, though Weber did suggest that a measure of autonomy – and personality - might be possible through devotion to one’s vocation and to ‘the demands of the day’. Weber wrote against the background of Nietzsche’s thoughts about personality, but here I suggest that he did not develop them. They remain an important challenge, and later thinkers – including political scientists and political sociologists - have been reluctant to take it up.
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2013
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