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- Title
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
- Author
- Weber, Max
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Fair
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 048642703X
- ISBN 13
- 9780486427034
- Item weight
- 0.8 pounds
This brilliant study opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and its view that change takes place through the conflict of opposites. Instead, Weber relates the rise of a capitalist economy to the Puritan determination to work out anxiety over salvation or damnation by performing good deeds ― an effort that ultimately encouraged capitalism.
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..".a brilliant study of the psychological conditions which made possible the development of capitalist civilization."
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