Capitalism and Religion: The Price of Piety

ISBN-13: 9780415282246 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 280 str.

Philip Goodchild

Opis

Our global ecological crisis demands that we question the rationality of the culture that has caused it: Western modernity's global free market capitalism. The author develops arguments from Nietzsche, Adorno and Horkheimer to suggest that our love of Western modernity is an expression of a piety and that it has become a global religion in practice, if not always in belief. He condemns modernity, presenting a philosophical alternative that demands attention from philosophers, critical theorists, philosophers of religion, theologians and those in ecological politics.

Recenzje

'An inspiring and troubling critique of the unholy alliance between religion, philosophy and economics in modernity and postmodernity.' - Critical and Cultural Theory

Spis treści

Preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction: questioning piety, PART I The problem of reason, PART II The problem of ethics, PART III The problem of piety, Index

O autorze

Philip Goodchild lectures in Religious Studies at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Gilles Deleuze and the Question of Philosophy (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996) and of Deleuze and Guattari (Sage, 1996) and is presently editing two other forthcoming volumes on philosophy and religion.