
Book Summary
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.
Book Details
Book Name | The Protestant Ethic And The Spirit Of Capitalism |
Author | Max Weber, Michael D. Coe |
Publisher | Dover Publications (04-apr-03) |
ISBN | 9780486427034 |
Pages | 320 |
Language | English |
Price | 358 |