The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism Before Its Triumph: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph - Twentieth Anniversary Edition - Brossura

Hirschman, Albert O.

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ISBN 10: 0691015988 ISBN 13: 9780691015989

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1997

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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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Winner of the 2003 Benjamin E. Lippincott Award
"Hirschman's volume stands as a principal contribution to the growing literature that is beginning to reshape our understanding of the legitimating beliefs undergirding the rise of the modern market economy."--Robert Wuthnow, American Journal of Sociology

"A fresh and exciting argument of a fascinating thesis."--Nannerl O. Keohane, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

Contenuti:

	Foreword
	Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	3
Pt. 1	How the Interests were Called Upon to Counteract the Passions	7
	The Idea of Glory and Its Downfall	9
	Man "as he really is"	12
	Repressing and Harnessing the Passions	14
	The Principle of the Countervailing Passion	20
	"Interest" and "Interests" as Tamers of the Passions	31
	Interest as a New Paradigm	42
	Assets of an Interest-Governed World: Predictability and Constancy	48
	Money-Making and Commerce as Innocent and Doux	56
	Money-Making as a Calm Passion	63
Pt. 2	How Economic Expansion was Expected to Improve the Political Order	67
	Elements of a Doctrine	70
	Related yet Discordant Views	93
Pt. 3	Reflections on an Episode in Intellectual History	115
	Where the Montesquieu-Steuart Vision Went Wrong	117
	The Promise of an Interest-Governed World versus the Protestant Ethnic	128
	Contemporary Notes	132
	Notes	137
	Index	147

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• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0691015988
• ISBN 13: 9780691015989
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 153