In this book, Maximiliano Korstanje explores the dichotomies of
capitalism, continuing the legacy of Max Weber, Ulrich Beck,
Richard Hofstadter and Giorgio Agamben. Undoubtedly, we are living
in trying times, which merits reconsidering the current conception
of sociological theories. From disasters to terrorism, Occident
seems to be trapped in an illusory landscape where risk plays a
crucial role in the configuration of a new tragic ethos. Although
Weber did the correct thing in pointing out that predestination was
a key factor in the capitalist genesis, he ignored the influence of
Norse culture, which was already rooted in the thinking of Luther
and Calvino. Whether in the battleground, Greeks and Romans were
subject to an overt destiny which depended on individual actions
(sacrifice) Norse mythology, on the other hand, offered the
opposite context. The Walkyrias, Odin's daughters, knew in advance
who would be the fallen warriors (predestination). Complementary to
what has been written, Korstanje established a new innovative
thesis that explains why Anglo-Saxon culture was not only prone to
develop a globalized capitalist system of production, but also
prone to risk-perception. Combining a closed-conception of future
(predestination) with a sentiment of excemptionalism given by the
Reform, the US logically constructed a world of preemption that led
to the dilemma of "preventive attack". The role of government in
posing threats to control the internal workforce, as well as how
the principle of exception triggers fear, are fascinating themes
discussed in this text.
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