The enchantments of Mammon : how capitalism became the religion of modernity / Eugene McCarraher.
The enchantments of Mammon : how capitalism became the religion of modernity / Eugene McCarraher.
The enchantments of Mammon : how capitalism became the religion of modernity / Eugene McCarraher.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.
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G 2019/6100
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xii, 799 pages ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Part one. The dearest freshness deep down things: capitalist enchantment in Europe, 1600-1914: About his business: the medieval theological economy, the Protestant theology of "improvement," and the emergence of capitalist enchantment -- The god among commodities: Christian political economy, Marx o...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.
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Massachusetts
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2019.
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"Far from displacing religions, as has been supposed, capitalism became one, with money as its deity. Eugene McCarraher reveals how Mammon ensnared us and how we can find a more humane, sacramental way of being in the world. If socialists and Wall Street bankers can agree on anything, it is the extreme rationalism of capital. At least since Max Web...
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The enchantments of Mammon : how capitalism became the religion of modernity / Eugene McCarraher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2019/6100
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74VKaw3A4odl
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0674984617 hardcover
9780674984615 hardcover
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261.85
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991024283313802626
