The passions and the interests :political arguments for capitalism before its triumph
- 作者: Hirschman, Albert O.
- 出版: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press 1997, ©1977.
- 版本: 20th anniversary ed.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (xxvi, 153 pages) :illustrations.
- 標題: Intellectual life History. , Free Enterprise. , Intellectual life , Capitalism. , History. , Capitalism , Intellectual life. , Electronic books. , BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Free Enterprise. , Capitalism History. , BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
- ISBN: 1400848512 , 9781400848515
- ISBN: 0691015988 , 140081037X , 9780691015989
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-146) and index. pt. 1. How the interests were called upon to counteract the passions -- pt. 2. How economic expansion was expected to improve the political order -- pt. 3. Reflections on an episode in intellectual history.
- 摘要: This text reconstructs the intellectual climate of the 17th and 18th centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests was assigned the role of containing the unruly and destructive passions of man. The book offers an interpretation of the rise of capitalism that emphasizes the continuities between old and new, in contrast to the assumption of a sharp break that is a common feature of both Marxist and Weberian thinking. Among the insights presented in the book is the ironical finding that capitalism was originally supposed to accomplish exactly what was soon denounced as its worst feature: the repression of passions in favour of the "harmless", if one dimensional, interests of commercial life. To portray this lengthy ideological change as an endogenous process, the author draws on the writings of a large number of thinkers, including Montesquieu, Sir James Steuart and Adam Smith.
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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. Featuring a new afterword by Jeremy Adelman and a foreword by Amartya Sen, this Princeton Classics edition of The Passions and the Interests sheds light on the intricate ideological transformation from which capitalism emerged triumphant, and reaffirms Hirschman's stature as one of our most influential and provocative thinkers. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
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