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"Love, Luxury and Capitalism - On the Birth of the Modern World from the Spirit of Extravagance" The work titled ", which is described as Sombart's masterpiece. It is one of a series of complementary books he published after Modern Capitalism (1902). In this work, Sombart deals with the formation stages of what we have become accustomed to calling "capitalism" since Marx. Sombart's concept of capitalism is very broad; In addition to the network of economic relations, cultural phenomena and "spiritual" It also includes processes.
Sombart's main goal in this book is to reveal the essential role played by "luxury" in the birth of capitalism; by examining the relationship between love, luxury and capitalism, he shows how they trigger each other. Gentle prostitutes, who appeared on the stage of history after the secularization of the understanding of love, were confined, and the rise of mistresses led to the birth of both an entire economy ("mistress economyé") and a culture ("capitalist luxury culture") on the basis of relationships based on "luxury". It is truly exemplary to witness! Especially after all this time, the "shallow path" that humanity has reached in the name of equality, justice and freedom. Considering...
