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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813117503321

Autore

Goodchild Philip <1965->

Titolo

Capitalism and religion : the price of piety / / Philip Goodchild

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 2002

ISBN

1-134-45952-1

0-415-28224-1

1-280-05471-9

0-203-39841-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

291.175

Soggetti

Capitalism - Religious aspects - Christianity

Religion - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: questioning piety; The problem of reason; The murder of God; Truth; Price; The problem of ethics; Freedom; Value; Potency; The problem of piety; Piety; Experience; Awakening; Conclusion; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Our global ecological crisis demands that we question the rationality of the culture that has caused it: western modernity's free market capitalism. Philip Goodchild develops arguments from Nietzsche, Adorno, Horkheimer, and Marx, to suggest that our love of Western modernity is an expression of a piety in which capitalism becomes a global religion, in practice, if not always in belief. This book presents a philosophical alternative that demands attention from philosophers, critical theorists, philosophers of religion, theologians, and those in ecological politics.