1st Edition

Capitalism and Religion The Price of Piety

By Philip Goodchild Copyright 2002
    280 Pages
    by Routledge

    288 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

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

    Biography

    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.

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