53 | Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: Anti-Materialist Sociology
What's Left of Philosophy
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I'm Going to Do an Idealistic History of Capitalism
"I found that really strange. Like is this, is it meant to undermine materialist explanation? Or I don't know, is it just meant to add something?" he asks. "It seemed like he was going to propose a kind of alternative idealist causal explanation for how capitalism came about and how the culture and social formation around it came about," she adds. 'But then later in different places, he says, no, I'm not really'
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