The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph
The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph
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激情与利益：资本主义胜利前的政治论据
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10.2307/2064316
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1977
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A. Hirschman
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在这本书中，阿尔伯特·赫希曼重构了十七世纪和十八世纪的知识氛围，以阐明发生的复杂的意识形态转变，在这种转变中，对物质利益的追求——长期以来被谴责为贪婪的致命罪恶——被赋予了遏制人类难以驾驭和破坏性激情的角色。赫希曼在这里为资本主义的兴起提供了一种新的解释，强调新旧之间的连续性，与马克思主义和韦伯思想的共同特征——尖锐断裂的假设形成鲜明对比。在这里提出的见解中，有一个具有讽刺意味的发现，即资本主义最初被认为是要完成的，正是很快被谴责为其最糟糕的特征：压抑激情，支持“无害的”，如果是一维的，商业生活的利益。为了将这一漫长的意识形态变化描述为一个内生的过程，赫希曼引用了许多思想家的著作，包括孟德斯鸠、詹姆斯·斯图尔特爵士和亚当·斯密。这本普林斯顿经典版的《激情与利益》以杰里米·阿德尔曼（Jeremy Adelman）的新后记和阿马蒂亚·森（Amartya Sen）的前言为特色，揭示了资本主义取得胜利的复杂的意识形态转变，并重申了赫希曼作为我们最有影响力和最具煽动性的思想家之一的地位。
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.