The article discusses approaches to Weber’s theis of the disenchantment of the world in following the reflexive strategy that Weber calls ‘critique’ (in the Kantian sense) of conceptsthat opens them toward their historically changing diagnostic potential. Attentionis focused on the in-depth archaeology of Weber’s thesis that Johannes Weiss proposes,an archaeology that makes explicit the meaning antagonisms between the rationalism of modern science, the ethical rationalism of the religions of salvation, and the magical image of the world, clarifying junctions between Weberian and Nietzschean motives and problematizing ‘the future of religion’ in this context. IN the spirit of Weiss’s privative definition of modernity as ‘a time foreign to God and devoid of prophets’, the commentary is moved by an interest in the antinomies of modern disenchantment seen as the demoralization of the world that is a condition of possibility of Modernity’s naturalistic projects; and also by the interest in such operative sociological concepts as ‘image of the world’, ‘relation to the world’, ‘religious habitus’, which are relevant to the thesis of disenchantment but which Weber doesn’t clarify explicitly.
Svetlana Sabeva (Fri,) studied this question.