Author: Paul Alexandre de Guénet (bishop of Saint Pons.)Publisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages :
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The Spirit of French Capitalism
Author: Charly ColemanPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503614832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
How did the economy become bound up with faith in infinite wealth creation and obsessive consumption? Drawing on the economic writings of eighteenth-century French theologians, historian Charly Coleman uncovers the surprising influence of the Catholic Church on the development of capitalism. Even during the Enlightenment, a sense of the miraculous did not wither under the cold light of calculation. Scarcity, long regarded as the inescapable fate of a fallen world, gradually gave way to a new belief in heavenly as well as worldly affluence. Animating this spiritual imperative of the French economy was a distinctly Catholic ethic that—in contrast to Weber's famous "Protestant ethic"—privileged the marvelous over the mundane, consumption over production, and the pleasures of enjoyment over the rigors of delayed gratification. By viewing money, luxury, and debt through the lens of sacramental theory, Coleman demonstrates that the modern economy casts far beyond rational action and disenchanted designs, and in ways that we have yet to apprehend fully.
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Cambridge University Library Bulletin (extra Series).
Author: Cambridge University LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed booksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Catalogue of the Mathematical, Historical and Miscellaneous Portion of the Celebrated Library of M. Guglielmo Libri ..
Author: Index to the Catalogue of Books in the Bates Hall of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
Index to the catalogue of books in the upper hall
Author: Boston Mass, publ. librPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
Catalogue of the Liverpool Free Public Library ... Reference Department ...: Books received from Jan. 1871 to Dec. 1880
Author: Guide to French Literature
Author: Anthony LeviPublisher: Detroit [Mich.] : St. James Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1230
Book Description
This guide surveys the lives and works of 300 famous French writers. Entries are devoted to the primary writers, with some entries on important movements, literary groups and publications.
Index to the Catalogue of Books in the Upper Hall of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 924
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