Wiese envisioned sociology as a secular Vatican superseding Marxism and other isms.
Evidence
In his introductory address in Frankfurt, Wiese pilloried collective egoism and lust for power as being the great stupidities of the age. He saw the ideal future for sociology as lying in a
secular Vatican': in a central structure in which the practice and theory of general administration were visibly united, there would stand,raised on a high stage, the granite tables of the general system of social processes, the details of which will from time to time be corrected’. 15 In Wiese’s eyes, this vision would supersede outdated `isms’, among which he mentioned Marxism in particular. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 416
Categorization
- SHARE: The ‘secular Vatican’ with granite tables of social processes on a raised stage is a gift for anyone who cares about sociology’s imperial ambitions.
- SEED: Angle: the discipline that wanted to be a church — sociotechnocratic fantasies of administering society from a central bureau.
- XREF: connects to: Postwar German sociology’s doyen imagined a technocratic ‘secular Vatican’ that would replace Marxism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1679
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Postwar German sociology’s doyen imagined a technocratic ‘secular Vatican’ that would replace Marxism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1679
Broader Connections
- Postwar German sociology’s doyen imagined a technocratic ‘secular Vatican’ that would replace Marxism
#corroborates(0.98) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1679