Pynchon/Weber

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

See also Schroeder's article from 1990 (Pynchon Notes 26-27, pp. 69-80):

/From Puritanism to Paranoia: Trajectories of History in Weber and Pynchon//
/
"Weber's and Pynchon's thought, by contrast [to Marxism and 
Psychoanalysis- kfl], is not wedded to the presuppositions of science. 
Nor do their analyses of modernity place much emphasis on the material 
conditions of society or on an inner essence of human beings. Instead, 
in their different ways, they provide us with ideas about the historical 
origins of our modern self-understanding and about the dilemma science 
presents for our modern world-view. It is perhaps a virtue rather than a 
shortcoming of these two writers that they do not offer solutions to 
this problem but rather try to confront the nature of a process that is 
still unfolding." (p. 78)

On 29.08.2015 12:20, Dave Monroe wrote:
> ... we try ...
>
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 5:03 AM, Mark Kohut<mark.kohut at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> These are the kind of deep insights that matter most--to me at
>> least---about Pynchon. Weber supplied
>> an infrastructure to his vision, so to speak.
>>
>> Thanks, Kai.
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 5:26 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
>> <lorentzen at hotmail.de>  wrote:
>>>> Weber, Pynchon and the American Prospect
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://maxweberstudies.org/kcfinder/upload/files/MWSJournal/1.2pdfs/1.2%20161-177.pdf
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Well worth reading.
>>>
>>> -
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