000			01915nam a22001937a 4500
005			20240615174314.0
008			240615b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a9781621380931
082			_a306.6 _bWEB
100			_aWeber, Max _93300
245			_aThe protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism
260			_bAngelico Press _aKettering _c2014
300			_a189 p.
365			_aINR _b1399.00
520			_aThe Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is Max Weber's groundbreaking study of the psychological and spiritual conditions that allowed for the development of capitalist culture. Weber's thesis takes off from startling twin reversals. First, in a reversal of the Marxian thesis that material conditions form the basis for "states of mind," Weber asserts that it is these very mental conditions and associated cultural values that shaped the capitalist world and the human quest for prosperity. More specifically, Weber's insight is that the belief in the moral value of work, encouraged by Calvinist strains of Protestantism, fostered a this-worldly asceticism -- reversing and supplanting the medieval monastic ideal of an other-worldly asceticism. Thus grew, in early modern England and Northern Europe, a new attitude toward the fulfillment of worldly duties -- baptizing, as it were, what would become the unapologetic pursuit of wealth. As a trenchant and still controversial analysis of how the historical phases of Christianity have conditioned the ethical, political, economic, and social lives of the peoples of the West -- and, later, the world -- Weber's work continues to be a touchstone for the ongoing debate on the origins of capitalism and the future course of economic history. (https://www.penguinbookshop.com/book/9781621380931)
650			_aCapitalism -- Religious aspects -- Protestant churches _917093
650			_aProtestant work ethic _917094
942			_cBK _2ddc
999			_c6938 _d6938