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SOCIETAS: A Journal for Philosophical Study of Public Affairs

No. 16, March 2006, pp. 153-205

Max Webers Political Sociology:

The Concept Analysis of Nation-State and Domination
by
Tsu- Bang Cheng
Department of Sociology
National Chengchi University
tsubang@ms46.hinet.net

2005 1 8

2005 11 14 2006 2 28

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political sociology
state-society
Nash, 2004: 1
paradigmMax Weber
nation- state = society
state vs. civil societyMichel Foucault
governmentality 1
meaninglabor
power

subjection

2003 12 18 19

Foucault1991
1

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2000 1023
19

Herrschaft

Volkswirtschaft
Wertbeziehung

raison dtat

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1964 100
Raymond Aron
Max Weber and Power
Politics

Aron, 1986: 265

1895 Der Nationalstaat und die

Volkswirtschaftspolitik31 1904 1905
Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist
des Kapitalismus40
2

Schluchter 1900 1910

2

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1992
27
Talcott Parsons
Wirtschaft und
Gesellschaft
structural functionalism
Parsonizing Weber
1992 19

Wolfgang Mommsen 1959

1890-1920Max Weber und die deutsche Politik: 1890-1920
1889-1900
1900-1910
1910-1919

Schluchter

Schluchter, 1986: 165

Tribe
1897 1903 1914
Schluchter
Schluchter1986: 165-7 Tribe1989: 85-7

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3Mommsen, 1984: 48

4
5

1998
2003

4 1975 Tenbruck1980 The

Problem of Thematic Unity in the Works of Max Weber

1997 6-8
Cohen1975
5

Bellah
Eisenstadt
1992 28-30
3

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1997 10

Aron, 1986: 274

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1890

6
1892 Verein fr Sozialpolitik
Evangelisch- sozialen Kongress

agrarian state
industrial state
19
the Junker landowners
1871
1890

Honoratiorenpolitik

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Polonization 1897
Karl
Oldenberg
Ueber Deutschland als Industriestaat

Oldenberg
Eigenwirtschaft

8
Oldenberg

Machtstaat

Tribe1989: 89-98
8 Karl Oldenberg Weber1989b
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BehaglichkeitGre

nationales Dasein 9

Schicksal
Oldenberg
Weber, 1993: 630, 1989b: 21310
Oldenberg

Oldenberg Weber, 1989b:

213

1895

Mommsen, 1984: 36

10

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Kampf

eigene Wertmastab
Weber, 1993: 558 1997a: 89

Weber, 1997a: 86

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groe Politik

Machtfragen
Jugendstreich 11
Weltmachtpolitik

Weber, 1993: 571, 1997a: 106

Weber, 1997a: 91-2

Weber, 1997a:
92

1871
11

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Weber, 1993: 559, 1997a: 90

12 Qualitt der
MenschenWeber, 1997a: 91

nationalen Artewigen Kampf

friedlichen

Machtkmpfe
Weber, 1993:
560-1, 1997a: 92-3

politischen Leitung
Giddens, 1995: 22

Beruf

12

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Beruf zur politischen Leitung der Nation

Weber, 1997a: 98

psychologischen
Unterlagen
Ueberbau
Weber, 1993: 566, 1997a: 99

1890

13

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1919

Politik als Beruf

Jean- Jaques RousseauThomas

HobbesBaron de Montesquieu

Cornelius TacitusMarcus
Tullius CiceroPlato
Aristotle 14

14 Hennis1988: 108

13

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Machiavellism
15

Discourses on the First Ten

Books of Titus Livy

Machiavelli,
2003: 4 Louis Althusser

Machiavelli and Us 16

17 19 Georg

1995 77-81
16 1962 1977

1998
1972 1986

17
-Althusser, 2003: 380

15

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Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

conjucture

political problem
the constitution of a
state18Althusser, 2003: 385Ernst Cassirer

1801 The German Constitution

Deutschland ist kein Staat mehr.Hegel, 1999: 6

The Prince
19

Cassirer, 1999: 151

18

ipso facto
Althusser, 2003: 396

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Hegel, 1999: 79-81

Foucault, 2000: 49

Cassirer, 1999: 166

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19 Althusser, 2003:
383

1995 89

stato

Machiavelli, 2003: 4-5

19

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Machiavelli, 2003: 11-2

Machiavelli, 2003: 11

Althusser, 2003: 418-20

new
beginningAlthusser, 2003: 381

20

self- preservation and growing 21

the States first Law of

20
21

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MotionMeineck, 1998: 1-2

Weber, 1993b: 40

Trger

Weber, 1993: 561, 1997a: 93

1917

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Parlament und Regierung im

neugeordneten Deutschland: Zur politischen Kritik des Beamtentums und
Parteiwesens 22
sachlichen

Weber, 1994: 133

Strauss, 2003: 9-65 1998 162-5

Beetham, 1990: 2; Mommsen, 1989: 24-5

1999
22

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1999 242

Skinner

Skinner, 2002: 284

Skinner

Machiavelli,
1997: 22

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The Art of War

[]

Althusser, 2003: 379

Althusser, 2003: 391

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Lorenzo de Medici
Machiavelli,
1990: 17Moses
CyrusRomulusTheseusMachiavelli,
1990: 34

11

Strauss

materials and modes of

acquisition

Strauss, 2003: 90-1

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11
Of the
new principalities which are acquired with ones arms and virtue 23

Machiavelli, 1990: 34

Weber 1991b: 170

24

Weber, 1991b: 170

Leo Strauss 11
Strauss, 2003: 69
24 Politik
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Beherrschten
herrschenden und aufsteigenden
KlassenWeber, 1993: 572, 1997a: 106

Verwaltungsstab

Appropriation
Expropriation
1. 2.
Weber, 1976, 154-5, 1996: 107-8

Monopolisierung
Dezentralisierung

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virtue 25
26Qualitten
fortune

27

occasion

matterform

Machiavelli, 1997a: 21

L e i d e n - s c h a f t Ve r a n t w o r t u n g s g e f h l

virtpower of menMeineck, 1998:

37
26

27
form/material Aristotle

1998 151-4
25

182

Augenma
SachlichkeitSache

wirkliche

Weber, 1991b: 221-2

Weber, 1991b: 220

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Meinecke

Berlin, 2002: 93

ThucydidesIsaiah Berlin

Berlin, 2002: 91

Eigengesetzlichkeite 28

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Geltung
physichen Zwangs
politischer Verband
Anstaltsbetrieb
Monopol
legitimen physichen ZwangsWeber,
1976: 29, 1993b: 94

legitime Gewaltsamkeit
Weber, 1991b: 233

28

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armed prophets
Machiavelli, 1990: 36

Skinner, 2002: 206 Strauss

comprehensive reflection

Strauss, 2003: 3

186

Machiavelli, 1990: 70
to beought to be
Berlin,
2002: 55

maintain his state

Machiavelli, 1990: 80

Machiavelli, 2003: 312

Gesinnungsethik
Verantwor-

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tungsethik

Weber, 1991b: 227

Weber, 1991b: 23929

Weber, 1991b: 157

2003: 180-6
29

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Legitimitt
Glaube

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Erwerbstrieb
Weber, 1992: 42

EhrenWeber, 1993a: 401

Weltanschauungengewhlt
Weber, 1991b: 223

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Weber, 1991a: 84

soziales Handeln

subjektiver SinnWeber, 1993b:

19

1993 9

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Ideen
[]
[]Weber, 1989a: 101, 1992: 71

Bildung

192

Weber, 1991b: 173

Legitimittsglaube
[]

Chancen

Weber, 1976: 122; 1996: 3

30

WertideeStellung

1998 273
30

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31

Glaubenssache

Nichtigkeit
Weber, 1991b: 222-3

Volk
19
32
Glaube belief

32
19

19 Meinecke
1970
2002
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Ethnische Gemeinschaftsbeziehungen
Politische Gemeinschaften

Stammverwandtschaftglaube
politische Gemeinschaftsbildung

Weber,
1976: 237, 1999: 320

[]
Solidarittsempfinden

Wertsphre
Weber, 1976: 528, 1997b: 241

Bildung

Weber, 1999: 323

politisch gemeinsame SchicksalWeber, 1999: 329

19
1871

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Foucault, 2000: 314

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

2002: 21-2

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2002 22
Kelly, 2003: 79 33
19

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Wahlverwandtschaft
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35

Weber, 1999:
333
Aron, 2000: 435

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constitutional Caesarism

2000: 133-4

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1998
269-306
1999
140 16-27

2000

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Abstract
As compared with other classic sociologists, such as Karl Marx and
Emile Durkheim, Max Weber proposes a specifically theoretical
proposition: Nation-state is society. In this essay, one of my research
focuses is to examine how the proposition makes us understand Webers
works. Basically, nation-state and domination are two key concepts in
Webers political sociology. There are three main arguments in this essay.
Firstly, in the early research stage, nation-state is important valuerelevance for Weber; secondly, in comparison with Machiavellis thought,
we can find Webers theoretical position in the history of thought; finally,
in the discussion of the domination of sociology, the concept of nationstate remains important value- relevance for Weber. In addition, I want to
point out that Webers political sociology expresses the character of
German thought in 19th century, i.e. Machiavellis concept of raison dtat
meets the philosophical tradition of German idealism.

Keywords: Weber, Machiavelli, nation-state, domination, belief