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Book Review

Max Weber’s interpretive sociology of law

by Michel Coutu, Routledge, 2019, $43.96 (Paperback), $144.00 (Hardback), $43.96 (eBook), 315 p, ISBN 9780367348977

Published online: 31 Jul 2024
 

Notes

1 Max Weber, [1907], ‘R. StammlersÜberwindung” der materialistischen Geschichtsauffassung’, in Id., Zur Logik und Methodik der Sozialwissenschaften. Schriften 1900–1907, ed. Gerhard Wagner, MWG I/7 (Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck)), 2018, 487–571 [French translation by Michel Coutu et Dominique Leydet: Max Weber, Rudolf Stammler et le matérialisme historique (Québec: Les Presses de l’Université Laval /Paris, Les Éditions du Cerf, 2001), 1–198].

2 See Max Rheinstein, ed., Max Weber on Law in Economy and Society (New York, Simon & Schuster, 1954), 63.

3 Michel Coutu, 70.

4 Max Weber, ‘Die Wirtschaft und die gesellschaftlichen Ordnungen und Mächte’, in MWG I/22, 3: Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Recht, ed. W. Gephart et S. Hermes (Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck)), 2010, 299f (thereafter, MWG I/22-3). Schluchter has pointed out that ‘Weber (combines) the typological approach with a genetic one’, in which ‘the classification according to stages and epochs (…) does not (follow) the history of events’ but is nevertheless ‘related to event history and approximate dating’ (our translation). See Wolfgang Schluchter, Die Entwicklung des okzidentalen Rationalismus. Eine Analyse von Max Webers Gesellschaftsgeschichte (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1979), 130.

5 See M. Coutu, 88f.

6 N.b. for Weber: Rechtssätze, i.e. legal propositions.

7 Rudolf Sohm, ‘Über Begriffsjurisprudenz’, Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung 14 (1909): 1019–1024, 1021, translated by M. Philpotts in Hubert Treiber, Reading Max Weber’s Sociology of Law (Oxford University Press, 2020), 29.

8 Hans-Peter Haferkamp, Georg Friedrich Puchta und die “Begriffsjurisprudenz” (Francfort: Klostermann, 2004).

9 Siehe Max Weber, MWG I/22.3, 445, quoted from Stefan BREUER, Herrschaft in der Soziologie Max Webers (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2011), 207; for the whole see Breuer, op. cit. 202ff. Furthermore: Weyma Lübbe, Legitimität kraft Legalität. Sinnverstehen und Institutionenanalyse bei Max Weber und seinen Kritikern (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1991).

10 Michael Schmid, ‘Idealisierung und Idealtyp. Zur Logik der Logik der Typenbildung bei Max Weber’, in Max Webers Wissenschaftslehre. Interpretation und Kritik, ed. Gerhard Wagner and Heinz Zipprian (Frankfurt/Main 1994), S. 415–444.

11 M. Coutu, 239.

12 Max Weber, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1976, Volume 1, p. 16, § 6, b).

13 Ibid., 18, Nr. 2.

14 See David Trubek, ‘Max Weber on Law and the Rise of Capitalism’, Wiconsin Law Review (1972): 720–753.

15 Max Weber, ‘Parlament und Regierung im neugeordneten Deutschland’, in Max Weber, Gesammelte Politische Schriften, ed. J. Winckelmann (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1971, 323, fn 1.

(…) Early modern capitalism did not originate in the model states where bureaucracy was a product of the state’s rationalism. Advanced capitalism too was at first not located to these countries, in fact, not primarily located in them. It arose when the judges were recruited from the ranks of the lawyers. Today, however, capitalism and bureaucracy has found one another and belong intimately together (Translation by G. Roth and C. Wittich, Max Weber, Economy and Society (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978),

Appendix II: ‘Parlament and Government in a Reconstructed Germany’, 1381–1469, fn 14 (1464). Knowledge of this footnote would have obviated the need for Coutu and Hans-Peter-Müller’s accurate but far-reaching explanations. See Hans-Peter Müller, ‘Die Genealogie des Kapitalismus’, in Id., Max Weber. Eine Spurensuche (Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2017), 353–79.

16 M. Coutu, 181ff.

17 Weber‘s motive is self-assertion, Carl Schmitt‘s is to be ‘on the side of things to come’ (see C. Schmitt, ‘Nationalsozialistisches Rechtsdenken’, Deutsches Recht 4 (1934): 225–9, 229).

18 See Carl Schmitt, Political Theology: Four Chapters on The Concept of Sovereignty (University of Chicago Press, 2005).

19 Stefan Breuer, ‘Das Chrisma des Führers’, in ID., Bürokratie und Charisma. Zur Politischen Soziologie Max Webers (Darmstadt 1994), 144–75, 144.

20 Max Weber, Briefe 1918–1920, ed. Gerd Krumeich and M. Rainer Lepsius, MWG II/10- (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010), 924. Schmitt glued Weber‘s invitation into his copy of Economy and Society. See Martin Tielke, ed., Schmitt und Sombart. Der Briefwechsel von Carl Schmitt mit Nicolaus, Corina und Werner Sombart (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2015), 253.

21 Comp. M. Coutu, 192–9.

22 Monika Frommel, ‘System und Kasuistik der modernen Rechtswissenschaften – Interdisziplinäre Gedanken zur Hubert Treibers Einladung Max Weber zu lesen’, Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie 43, no. 2 (2023): 224–46.

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