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Title: Religion and the Rise of Capitalism by R. H. Tawney, R.H. Tawney ISBN: 0-7658-0455-7 Publisher: Transaction Publishers Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The law of God saith, he that will not work, let him not eat
Comment: This book is a magisterial critical evaluation of Max Weber's thesis 'The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism'.
Tawney argues rightly that there is an interaction between religion and the social/economical environment because 'it seems a little artificial to talk as though capitalist enterprise could not appear till religious changes had produced a capitalist spirit. It would equally be true, and equally one-sided, to say that the religious changes were purely the result of economic movements.' (p.312)
As an example, the Christian Church itself had changed mightily in the Renaissance. It persecuted the Spiritual Franciscans who followed St Francis' rule of evangelical poverty. It was the richest company in the Western world (see W. Manchester: 'A world lit only by fire').
Tawney remarks rightly that what Calvin did for the bourgeoisie of the sixteenth century, Marx did for the proletariat of the nineteenth. Calvin's success was firmly prepared by Puritan moralists, who stressed thrift, work as an end in itself, efficiency and rational calculation. They paved the way for a shrewd commercial and powerful midldle class, which adopted the Calvinist religion and its ethic as a natural ally.
This very rich book shows the real impact of Calvinism on the whole society. One example: wages. Calvinism considered 'that high wages are not a blessing, but a misfortune, since they merely conduce to weekly debauches.' (p. 267)
This is a brilliantly written, colourful, metaphorical and yet scientific work. It should be an example for many historians, of how 'essential historical evolutions' can be presented to the public in a comprehensive and attractive language.
This is an essential read for the understanding of out modern society.
Rating: 3
Summary: start of the capitalism
Comment: the book concerns about the two main point of the last 5 centuries: religion and capitalism. they are together and separate.
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Title: The Protestant Ethic and the 'Spirit' of Capitalism and Other Writings (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Max Weber, Peter Baehr, Gordon C. Wells ISBN: 0140439218 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: A History of Economic Thought (Pelican S.) by William Joseph Barber ISBN: 0140208909 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1967 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Routledge Classics) by Max Weber, Talcott Parsons, Anthony Giddens ISBN: 041525406X Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 23 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Alfred Schutz on Phenomenology and Social Relations by Alfred Schutz ISBN: 0226741532 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1970 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention by David F. Noble ISBN: 0140279164 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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