The Passions and the Interests
：Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph
( Princeton Classics )
Publication subTitle ：Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph
Publication series ： Princeton Classics
Author： Hirschman Albert;Sen Amartya;Adelman Jeremy
Publisher： Princeton University Press
Publication year： 2013
E-ISBN: 9781400848515
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691160252
Subject： TQ569 fire extinguisher with extinguishing agent production
Keyword： 政治学史、政治思想史,发展中国家（总论）,世界史,世界各国经济概况、经济史、经济地理
Language： ENG
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Description
In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests--so long condemned as the deadly sin of avarice--was assigned the role of containing the unruly and destructive passions of man. Hirschman here offers a new interpretation for the rise of capitalism, one that emphasizes the continuities between old and new, in contrast to the assumption of a sharp break that is a common feature of both Marxian and Weberian thinking. Among the insights presented here is the ironical finding that capitalism was originally supposed to accomplish exactly what was soon denounced as its worst feature: the repression of the passions in favor of the "harmless," if one-dimensional, interests of commercial life. To portray this lengthy ideological change as an endogenous process, Hirschman draws on the writings of a large number of thinkers, including Montesquieu, Sir James Steuart, and Adam Smith.
Featuring a new afterword by Jeremy Adelman and a foreword by Amartya Sen, this Princeton Classics edition of The Passions and the Interests sheds light on the intricate ideological transformation from which capitalism emerged triumphant, and reaffirms Hirschman's stature as one of our most influential and provocative thinkers.
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