Value theory links Weber’s religious aestheticism to Nietzsche

Evidence

The name of Weber makes it dear that we cannot begin to sense the real ideological function of religious aestheticism unless we place it within that larger intellectual and ideological preoccupation which is the study and interrogation of value, and which, even more than with Weber, is associated with the name of the latter’s master, Nietzsche. 36 From this standpoint, Nietzsche’s “transvaluation of all values” and Weber’s misnamed and misunderstood ideal of a “value-free science” must both be seen as attempts to project an intellectual space from which one can study inner-worldly value as such, the whole chaotic variety of reasons and motives the citizens of a secular society have for pursuing the activities they set themselves. — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 6123

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader interpretive imperative of historicizing claims about value; echoes the chapter’s method of situating intellectual positions in their ideological context. — connects to: Weber’s neo-Kantianism barred him from hoping to restore substantive reason — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 783
• QUESTION: Worth chasing why Jameson names Nietzsche as Weber’s ‘master’ here — a genealogical claim about the study of value.