WiSe 22/23: Administration (makes) Power Order
Rolf-Dieter Hepp
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Administration can be interpreted as this specific expression of the process of rationalization as Max Weber understands it, namely, the increasing proliferation of a formal rationalization based on the methodical application of rules and procedures, which ensures calculability and predictability and which characterizes the capitalist type of rule in particular. Through the social structuring of processes of order, a specific social reality is constituted.
In this process, the administration produces, directs, structures and orders purpose-rationally social processes and procedural sequences, to which the life processes are subjected and which society subsumes under its logic. These bureaucratically oriented forms of domination are present in the state, as well as in the economy, education, care, etc.
On the basis of an examination of French connections and reinterpretations of these problematic circles initiated by Weber in the German discussion, the seminar will deal with the discussion by means of texts by Merleau-Ponty and Bourdieu. Furthermore, texts by Ernst Cassirer, Boltanski, Foucault and Ewald will be used to underline the symbolic forms of this legitimate conception of domination. close
16 Class schedule
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