The unimputable logic of bureaucratic mysticism
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Philosophy has often reflected on the nature of bureaucracy, its logic and method, and its consequences. This article aims to present how the unaccountable and therefore irrational bureaucratic logic is based on a religious, "mystical" psychopathology. To address this theme, we draw on what Max Weber wrote in his "Economy and Society" and Hannah Arendt in "The Origins of Totalitarianism," as they seem to be the authors who have best understood and pointed out the mystical-religious foundation of bureaucratic logic. Therefore, in the first section, we will show what the logic of bureaucratic thinking consists of according to these authors, and in the second section, we will indicate the pathological-religious foundation of this logic.
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