The passions and the interests : political arguments for capitalism before its triumph
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. Amo
eBook, English, 2013
First Princeton Classics edition View all formats and editions
Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2013
History
1 online resource (188 pages)
9781400848515, 1400848512
861532605
Part one. How the interests were called upon to counteract the passions
part two. How economic expansion was expected to improve the political order
part three. Reflections on an episode in intellectual history