WANDERING ETHOS AND ROMANTIC SPIRIT. REFLECTIONS FOLLOWING THE TRAIL OF
MAX WEBER’S SOCIOLOGY Cover Image

ЛУТАЛАЧКИ ЕТОС И ДУХ РОМАНТИКЕ. РАЗМАТРАЊА НА ТРАГУ СОЦИОЛОГИЈЕ МАКСА ВЕБЕРА
WANDERING ETHOS AND ROMANTIC SPIRIT. REFLECTIONS FOLLOWING THE TRAIL OF MAX WEBER’S SOCIOLOGY

Author(s): Dragana Jeremić Molnar
Subject(s): History and theory of sociology, Evaluation research, 18th Century, 19th Century
Published by: Српско социолошко друштво
Keywords: Max Weber; wandering; journey; enlightenment; romanticism;

Summary/Abstract: First part of the article is devoted to the main categories of Max Weber’s historicist sociology: ethos and spirit. The authors are examinig his concepts of capitalist spirit and protestant spirit and, relaying especially on Weber’s unfinished treatise on music, contemplating the missing concept of romantic spirit, which could be tied with wandering ethos. In the second part of article, they are separating the phenomena of wandering (moving without purpose or goal) from travelling (moving towards the determined end) and analysing the possibilities of re-constructiong the wandering ethos in context of emerging early Romanticism. In the end they are dealing with the main change the wandering underwent in 18th Century and early 19th Century: from despised activity practiced by social outcasts only (with few exceptions such as journeymen and merchants) to the tool of regeneration.

  • Issue Year: 47/2013
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 355-372
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Serbian