Capitalism as Hassliebe: Werner Sombart (1863-1941)

Six Essays with an Introduction
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-73353-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 322, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 749 g

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

Werner Sombart, seen both as a path-breaking innovative economic historian who invented the concept of the Spätkapitalismus (Late Capitalism) and the follower (for some time) of Hitler’s National Socialism, is still a forgotten major figure in German social science. As the author of a widely known exposition on socialism and social movements (trade unions), the monumental Der moderne Kapitalismus and a controversial monograph on the role of the Jews in the birth of capitalism, he is shown in this book in the broader context of the disputes in the first decades of the 20th century involving Marxists, German Jews and his friend Max Weber.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Szlajfer, Henryk

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Relegated to Footnotes: an Introduction

1 Das Kapital and Engels in the Life of the German Professor

2 Extraordinarius and Social Democracy

3 Socialism-Friendly Bestseller as “Castrated and Completely Harmless” Marxism

4 Modern Capitalism or Histoire Raisonnée

5 Precursor: der Kapitalistische Geist According to Sombart

6 Sombart’s Jews, with Weber and Marx in the Background

7 Epilogue: “What Does Sombart Actually Want?”

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Henryk Szlajfer, Professor Emeritus, Polish Academy of Sciences and Warsaw University. His publications include Economic Nationalism and Globalization: Lessons from Latin America and Central Europe (Brill, 2012) and Jews and New Christians in the Making of the Atlantic World in the 16th–17th Centuries (Brill, 2023). He co-edited Western Europe, Eastern Europe and World Development 13th–18th Centuries: Collection of Essays of Marian Malowist (Brill, 2010).