The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph (Twentieth Anniversary Edition)

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Princeton University Press, 6 ene. 1997 - 180 páginas
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In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests --so long condemned as the deadly sin of avarice --was assigned the role of containing the unruly and destructive passions of man. Hirschman here offers a new interpretation for the rise of capitalism, one that emphasizes the continuities between old and new, in contrast to the assumption of a sharp break that is a common feature of both Marxian and Weberian thinking. Among the insights presented here is the ironical finding that capitalism was originally supposed to accomplish exactly what was soon denounced as its worst feature: the repression of the passions in favor of the "harmless," if one-dimensional, interests of commercial life. To portray this lengthy ideological change as an endogenous process, Hirschman draws on the writings of a large number of thinkers, including Montesquieu, Sir James Steuart, and Adam Smith.

 

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It is rare to pick up a book for academic research and find it a pleasure to read, but this was certainly the case with Hirschman's delightful prose. A concise history of the idea of capitalism ... Leer reseña completa

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He takes time to come to the point. Only after exhausting all genealogies and histories from all possible political philosophers and French intellectuals does he make a little statement of his own ... Leer reseña completa

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Sobre el autor (1997)

Albert O. Hirschman is Professor Emeritus of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. His many publications include "Exit, Voice, and Loyalty, The Passions and the Interests, " and "A Propensity to Self-Subversion.

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TítuloThe Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph (Twentieth Anniversary Edition)
AutorAlbert O. Hirschman
EditorPrinceton University Press, 1997
ISBN1400822238, 9781400822232
N.º de páginas180 páginas
  
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