… Weber insists that one should not give up or lose faith in the face of this struggle. Indeed, he calls for us to engage in, rather than withdraw from, the problems of this world. He reminds us, for example, that while ‘successful political action is always the “art of the possible” … the possible is often reached only by striving to attain the impossible that lies beyond it’.

… Weber insists that one should not give up or lose faith in the face of this struggle. Indeed, he calls for us to engage in, rather than withdraw from, the problems of this world. He reminds us, for example, that while ‘successful political action is always the “art of the possible” … the possible is often reached only by striving to attain the impossible that lies beyond it’.

– Nicholas Gane –

Max Weber and Postmodern Theory: Rationalization Versus Re-enchantment

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