Uma sociologia da subjetivação: a sociologia de Max Weber e a literatura

Abstract

Analyzes the possibilities of dialogue between literature, in selected works of Fiódor Dostoiévski, Franz Kafka and Thomas Mann, and sociology of Max Weber. The dialogue between poets, writers and social scientists in Germany and France in the nineteenth century confirms the possibility of this analysis. The social situation that was developing in Europe at that time directed the gaze of both fields of scientific and literary production to common questions. It seeks to prove that weberian sociology, with all its peculiar elements can be placed as a reference for study of the works. For the subjective nature of literary texts and the multiple possibilities of interpretation, had the care methodology to perform both a sociological analysis of the literature, which takes into account the context in which such works were produced as a sociological analysis of literary discourse, in which the specificity of the text goes on to win a highlight as important as the context and the balance between both text and context, is to define the course of analysis. The works of Dostoiévski, with his polyphonic textual structure, approach the methodological to the interpretation of reality developed by Max Weber, as well as deal with common themes such as religion and the consequences of capitalism. In Kafka, the relationship was built around recurring themes also to Weber, as the issue of laws and bureaucracy. Finally, Thomas Mann demonstrated the possibility of a sociology of art proposed by Max Weber, in which the author works the process of empowerment of the aesthetic sphere and the implications in creating artistic, literary placed by Thomas Mann through the conflicts experienced by their protagonists. The study proved that the elements common to sociology can and should be used as a resource to perform an analysis of literary works