The Messianic Charisma: How and for Whom It Operates

Ali Özcan

Ekonomik Yaklasim, 2007, vol. 18, issue 63, 113-125

Abstract: The extent of depersonalised power of charisma in political entities is the main theme of this article. Although Max Weber partly articulated the particular 'phase' of the phenomenon under 'routinized charisma', the non-individual aspect of the power of charisma has no deserving attention in the related literature. The paper aims to contribute to the theorisations on charisma in political organisations in terms of the 'how' of its functioning. It argues that the 'unbridled-awesome' power is in effect a non-individual phenomenon. The very power is reified both not by and not for the person of charisma but by and for a corporate body. The net-like organized body 'matures' as the actual Subject of depersonalised-bureaucratised hegemony under the person and persona of the charismatic leader whose 'remote' presence does not reach to the factual working of the power -just as it is in his/her absence.

Keywords: Charisma; Messianic; Weber; Reification of Power; Routinization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
Note: [English Title] THE MESSIANIC CHARISMA: HOW AND FOR WHOM IT OPERATES [English Abstract] The extent of depersonalised power of charisma in political entities is the main theme of this article. Although Max Weber partly articulated the particular 'phase' of the phenomenon under 'routinized charisma', the non-individual aspect of the power of charisma has no deserving attention in the related literature. The paper aims to contribute to the theorisations on charisma in political organisations in terms of the 'how' of its functioning. It argues that the 'unbridled-awesome' power is in effect a non-individual phenomenon. The very power is reified both not by and not for the person of charisma but by and for a corporate body. The net-like organized body 'matures' as the actual Subject of depersonalised-bureaucratised hegemony under the person and persona of the charismatic leader whose 'remote' presence does not reach to the factual working of the power -just as it is in his/her absence. [English Keywords] Charisma; Messianic; Weber; Reification of Power ; Routinization
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