Weber et Marx: protestantisme et capitalisme

It is usual, in France as well as in the United States, to oppose Marx and Weber as two incompatible and contradictory paradigms in the social sciences. Inspite of their differences, both shareavision of modern capitalism as a system where impersonal and "reítied" relations replace persona...

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Autor: Lowy, Michael
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2003
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ufc.br:riufc/9817
Acceso en línea:http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/9817
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Capitalisme
Relations personnelles de dépendance
Protestantisme
Matérialisme historique
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Sumario:It is usual, in France as well as in the United States, to oppose Marx and Weber as two incompatible and contradictory paradigms in the social sciences. Inspite of their differences, both shareavision of modern capitalism as a system where impersonal and "reítied" relations replace personal relations of dependence and in which capital accumulation becomes largely an irrational end in itsell. Their interpretations of the origins of capitalism are, none the less, quite different. While Marx insists on the importance of violence in the primitive accumulation of capital - without ignoring the association between protestantism and capitalism - Weber emphasizes the decisive role of the elective affinily between the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism. In only two passages of his Protestant Elhics, dealing with the genesis of capitalism in North America, there is a polemic against historical materialism