Abstract

GONNET, Juan Pablo  and  ABRIL, Francisco. The Concept of Capitalism in Boltanski and Chiapello’s Pragmatic Perspective. Sociológica (Méx.) [online]. 2018, vol.33, n.94, pp.9-39. ISSN 2007-8358.

This article critically examines the pragmatic conceptualization of capitalism offered in Boltanski and Chiapello’s book El nuevo espíritu del capitalismo (The New Spirit of Capitalism). For them, capitalism is the demand for unlimited accumulation of capital legitimized through moral justifications, thus recognizing an unavoidable link between capitalism and morality. The article’s authors aim to show that this is interpreted in different ways that are both ambiguous and contradictory, thus generating an imprecise theorization of capitalism and the contributions that the pragmatist sociological current can offer for understanding it.

Keywords : capitalism; the spirit of capitalism; justification; morality; pragmatic sociology.

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