Professor Walzer offers a provacative analysis of the social roots of Puritanism and in the process mounted a fresh tilt at Max Weber's tattered sails. He has also death the Marxists another swipe for clinging too closely to class determinism. He sees Puritans as intellectuals and literate gentry, as new men who were made new by Puritan ideology. Walzer's study is both bold and clever with suggestive studies he has underlined the fact that Puritanism infected teh whole of a man's life, from imagery to military tactics. Like many before him, the author is trying to recover the impact of Puritanism on personality. His instincts are splendid.
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Michael Walzer is Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.
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the protestant ethic and the spirit of everything,
This review is from: The Revolution of the Saints: A Study in the Origins of Radical Politics (Paperback)
In this book, Michael Walzer gives a new twist to a classic thesis: that the revolutionary ideological change born of the Protestant Reformation was foundational for the emergence of many of the modern social institutions we know. Walzer focuses, in particular, on the emergence of radical politics and the role of Calvinist and Puritan thought in the English Civil War.
Walzer traces the emergence of views within Calvinist thought that laid claim to all aspects of the believers life - the same transformation that Weber saw as catalyst for the rise of capitalism. He sees the radicalization of religious belief and political action as having gone hand in hand, laying out a convincing argument to that effect. Walzer also takes a step further than, or away from, Weber by pointing out that it wasn't the beliefs in Protestantism itself that created radical politics but was more the vehicle that midwifed them and then couldn't maintain relevance to those political developments. Overall, Walzer's argument is interesting but is not totally convincing. Underlying the work is a not fully disguised angst toward Calvinists and Puritans. Additionally, while he makes a good case for the importance of ideas in explaining social outcomes, there is little in the way of an attempt to incorporate structural and institutional influences on the Puritan movement. It is an important work, and one on which one could improve.
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