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Max Weber famously argued that the rise of capitalism in early modern Europe was premised on the emergence of a distinct

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The Lost Spirit of Capitalism
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...a major work for our times. —Irving Kristol, The Public Interest

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One of the world’s most celebrated theologians argues for a Protestant anti-work ethic

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Digital technologies are now central to the machinations of capitalism. How are they giving rise to new forms of capital

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How did the economy become bound up with faith in infinite wealth creation and obsessive consumption? Drawing on the eco

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Introduction -- Originary technicity -- The evolution of the arche-programme -- The capitalization of life -- Transhuman

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Introduces the controversy that has surrounded Max Weber's thesis about the relationship between ascetic Protestant

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In The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the ca

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An ethnographic study on Design Thinking, this book offers profound insights into the popular innovation method, central

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An ethnographic study on Design Thinking, this book offers profound insights into the popular innovation method, central

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