Capitalism and Modernity
Subtitle: An Excursus on Marx and Weber
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 21, 1990
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780415017282
First sentence: Although the term did not by any means originate with him - its first recorded use, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, was in 1627 - it was Baudelaire who first gave vogue to the idea of 'modernity' in his essay The Painter of Modern Life, written in 1859-60.