The New Spirit of Capitalism

The New Spirit of Capitalism

Author
Luc Boltanski, Eve Chiapello
Publication Year

"The French economic philosophers Chiapello and Boltanski argue that the 'new spirit of capitalism' claims to offer its workers new opportunities to create flexibly spontaneous lives within corporate structures and, furthermore, has incorporated what used to be 'aesthetic critique' into the very motor of those operations."

Recommended by Shannon Jackson, Professor of Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies and Rhetoric and author of Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics.