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THE GENESIS OF CAPITALISM AND THE ORIGINS OF MODERNITY
by Luciano Pellicani
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Why is it that in the West--and only in the West--there has been a
transition from a static to a self-propulsive economy? Through what
combination of circumstances has a modern industrial society come into
being? What combination of circumstances has made possible the global
expansion of Europe? Luciano Pellicani answers these questions by
showing first of all the sterile and misleading character of the two
main theories which have hiterto dominated the debate concerning the
genesis of capitalism: Marx's theory of original accumulation and
Weber's theory of the Protestant ethic. Subsequently, using the methods
of comparative marcrosociology, Pellicani develops a hypothesis
originally entertained by both Marx and Weber, whereby the mystery of
capitalist society is solved in terms of collective subjects, structural
factors and historical conditions that triggered the mechanisms of a
permanent capitalist revolution. The result is a fascinating
reconstruction of the extraordinary adventure which led Europe to the
Great Transformation and, through it, the construction of a
qualitatively new kind of civilization, predicated on ratio,
acquisitive-competitive individualism and experimentation in all
fields--a civilization exhibiting an extraordinary expansionist power
and, because of it, inherently imperialistic, whose driving institution
has been, and remains, the market.