Some remarks on the idea of “secularization” in Weber
Abstract
Starting from the Weberian reading of secularization as rationalization and disenchantment, the author underlines the transformation of the very idea of philosophy implicit in Weber’s work as well as his departure from any “emanationist” conception of history, which, having been deprived of any ontological absoluteness, becomes in his thought the result of historiography. According to the author, Weber’s work should be ranked among the most outstanding outcomes of the XXth-century critical historicism