The Effects Of Capitalism On People, Personality And Culture: Introduction

Abstract:The 19 essays in this collection present an international and pluridisciplinary approach to the relation between capitalism, personality and culture, from the eighteenth century to the present. In Part I: Capitalism and Social Thought, they look primarily at social and economic thought, and in Part II: Representations of Commerce and Capitalism, they examine film, theatre, music, television, and journalism. By treating perspectives as widely separated as those of Montesqueiu, Marx, Rand, and Wajda, and examining representations from a number of countries and languages, including France, the United States, Poland, Hungary, Italy and the UK, the essays present a contrasting and rapidly shifting portrait of the meaning of some of the most contested terms in our present-day politics and society.