Theatrum Arbitri is a literary study dealing with the possible influence of Roman comic drama (comedies of Plautus and Terence, theatre of the Greek and Roman mimes, and fabula Atellana) on the surviving fragments of Petronius' Satyrica. The theatrical assessment of this novel is carried out at the levels of plot-construction, characterization, language, and reading of the text as if it were the narrative equivalent of a farcical staged piece with the theatrical structure of a play produced before an audience. The analysis follows the order of each of the scenes in the...

Focusing on the relationship between capitalism,
rationalization and scarcity, this book offers a
critical reinterpretation of Marx, Weber, Lukacs and
Gramsci.

Pointing out the materialist elements in Webers
conception of the impulse underlying religious
rationalization, this work argues that the emergence
of capitalism creates the possibility of an
alternative society that would use modern
technology to drastically reduce the
existence of undeserved human suffering that
religious theodicies have tried to interpret. Thus,
the emergence of capitalist society has
inadvertently...