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A carregar... The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph (1977)por Albert O. Hirschman
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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. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Towards the end of the book the author draws his comparison to von Mises' and Hayek's market theory which seems to have inspired Sen's musings in the foreword. The author writes "Curiously, the intended but unrealized effects of social decisions stand in need of being discovered even more than those effects that were unintended but turn out to be all too real". Lo and behold, this actually smells like social theory. But the curious thing is that the author's preceding literature review does not in any way touch upon any "intended but unrealized effects"; what they are or how they might be discovered. Certainly the author can't be thinking that, by reading the works of 18th century philosophers, he has discovered what 18th century people intended with their actions?
In any case, this book is a brief but well-written piece of 18th and 19th century intellectual history. If the author intended it to be something else, the effects of that intention were not realized in my reading of the book.