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53 | Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: Anti-Materialist Sociology

What's Left of Philosophy

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Is There Something Wrong With Modern Capitalism?

Sally Kohn: I find myself reading in resonating with you when he's talking about the emergence, the notion of the vocation of, you know, the calling when it comes to work. She asks if those of us who are on the left can critique this notion of a calling or at least demystify social relations of exploitation. Kohn: What would it mean to challenge and leave behind this language of work as a calling where you're expected to give 110 percent?

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