Il nuovo spirito del capitalismo

Every so often I find myself reading something that I regret having put off for so long, and this is one of those cases. It is a vital contribution to the sociology of work, to social and cultural analyses of the 'contemporary condition', and to understandings of the current social order and contemp Leggi tutto

This is a classic modern work of sociology, which sets out to unpick the relationship between society, politics, and the mechanisms of the economy. The key concept presented by the authors is that in order to survive capitalism needs to be accompanied by both a "spirit" and a "critique". The "spirit" Leggi tutto

Alors, même si c'était quand même très dense avec pas mal de sciences économiques et près de 1 000 pages de contenu (j'ai vraiment tout lu y compris la méthodologie à la fin) et que j'ai dû prendre plusieurs pause de l'ouvrage pour pouvoir le finir, c'était vraiment une lecture fascinante et très in Leggi tutto

Een monumentale, kritische verkenning van het hedendaagse kapitalisme Ik heb deze 'baksteen' (zoals mijn promotor dit imposante oeuvre van 600+ blz. liefkozend noemt) gelezen voor mijn bachelorproef. Het boek is niet altijd even helder, valt vaak in herhaling en lijkt soms vrij ongestructureerd (of j Leggi tutto

I bought this book on a whim thinking it was more leftist political/economic thought. I was pleasantly surprised to find it was instead textbook sociology looking into the phases, or "spirits," of capitalism in the 20th Century through the eyes of management texts. This kind of book is well suited t Leggi tutto

The fundamental idea here--that the artistic critique of capitalism vitiated the social critique--is one of those kinds of ideas that I think about with some explanatory force every, oh, forty-five seconds or so.

Wow. Like others have commented here, this is one of those books I've been meaning to read but finally only now just got around to it. I don't feel well or have much time, so literally a few bullet points, or thoughts really. * Many excellent observations, criticisms, suggestions, thoughts, many of w Leggi tutto

As the authors mention in the book that the critique of capitalism needs to account for the facts of the transforming world of work, in order to keep up with the displacements of capitalism and develop its critique, this book is an ambitious endeavor to develop a systematic account for understanding Leggi tutto

Boltanski e Chiapello analisam como o capitalismo evoluiu para se manter dominante, absorvendo críticas e ajustando sua ideologia. Em vez de entrar em colapso diante das crises, ele se reconfigura, mantendo a exploração sob novas justificativas. O "novo espírito" do capitalismo se estrutura em torno Leggi tutto