The Debt of the Living: Ascesis and Capitalism by Elettra Stimilli

The Debt of the Living: Ascesis and Capitalism

Suny Contemporary Italian Philosophy

Elettra Stimilli with Arianna Bove (Translator)

216 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics religion challenging informative medium-paced
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Max Weber's account of the rise of capitalism focused on his concept of a Protestant ethic, valuing diligence in earning and saving money but restraint in spending it. However, such individual restraint is foreign to contemporary understandings of...

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