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Bureaucracy, or Order without a Master

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Contemporary political philosophy and social science are largely shaped by themes of alienation, the dehumanization of social relations, and the loss of freedom during modernization. Prominent 20th-century thinkers criticized bureaucracy as the primary cause of this transformation, at a time when bureaucracy had become an indispensable tool of the welfare state's care for the masses and a typical phenomenon in business. What is bureaucracy—the triumph of rational order, as Max Weber described it, or the horror of irrational arbitrariness, as Franz Kafka described it? Could officials in Heidelberg really be so different from those in Prague? As with many other issues of social and managerial technology transfer, is it often a case of cargo cult? Or does Kafka's grotesque image of bureaucracy reflect its reality in Bordeaux, Munich, Prague, Moscow, and Bombay? Finally, is it possible to defeat corruption and improve bureaucracy, or will they always be dangerous? The answer to all these questions is yes. To capture the contradictory nature of the concept and phenomenon, the author identifies the south and north poles of the spectrum of modern bureaucratic organizations and describes their historical dynamics, including a forecast for the future of bureaucracy in the era of Musk and AI.
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