The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Hegel predicted that the basic unit of modern society would be the state, Marx that it would be the commune, Lenin and Hitler that it would be the political party. Before that, a succession of saints and sages claimed the same for the parish church, the feudal manor, and the monarchy. The big contention of this small book is that they have all been
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The spread of Christianity echoed the principles of the Subject, putting forth the ultimate Father, the almighty God in whose great hands lay the fate of all His people, the shepherd to us as flock. Under Him came another father-figure in the form of the Pope, under whom came widely distributed Fathers of local churches. A veritable Russian doll of
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Max Weber's (1930 [1906]) famous thesis of the ‘spirit of capitalism’ that market exchange processes are cultural practices, and
Steffen Mau • The Metric Society: On the Quantification of the Social
