Online 14 03 2024
(Calenda announcement 1141144)
What remains of Max Weber's ideal-types of legitimacy? This (overly) schematic question is a poor summary of the colloquium's purpose, yet it is its foundation. Legitimacy is the foundation of political regimes, and Weber's analysis of it has become a classic. Today, however, we need to re-examine these categories. Are they still relevant today? Have new types of legitimacy emerged? In new fields (such as climate change and the media)? At a time when it seems that the foundations of our states are being shaken by multiple factors, questioning the concept of legitimacy is of the utmost relevance.
