This paper offers a reconstruction of the practical logic on which the process of 'ethical rationalization of everyday life' is based, presenting a Weberian category which has remained in the shadows: ...

The importance of 'rights talk' to contemporary political and social theory is clear. What is less often recognized, however, is the importance that the idea of rights plays in Max Weber's political ...

The global emergence of authoritarianism has, unsurprisingly, provoked analogies with the Weimar period. Yet caution must be exercised when reasoning by historical analogy. Capitalism has always ...