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The Enchantments of Mammon - How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity (Paperback)
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The Enchantments of Mammon - How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity (Paperback)
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"An extraordinary work of intellectual history as well as a
scholarly tour de force, a bracing polemic, and a work of Christian
prophecy...McCarraher challenges more than 200 years of
post-Enlightenment assumptions about the way we live and work."
-The Observer At least since Max Weber, capitalism has been
understood as part of the "disenchantment" of the world, stripping
material objects and social relations of their mystery and magic.
In this magisterial work, Eugene McCarraher challenges this
conventional view. Capitalism, he argues, is full of sacrament,
whether one is prepared to acknowledge it or not. First flowering
in the fields and factories of England and brought to America by
Puritans and evangelicals, whose doctrine made ample room for
industry and profit, capitalism has become so thoroughly enmeshed
in the fabric of our society that our faith in "the market" has
become sacrosanct. Informed by cultural history and theology as
well as management theory, The Enchantments of Mammon looks to
nineteenth-century Romantics, whose vision of labor combined
reason, creativity, and mutual aid, for salvation. In this
impassioned challenge to some of our most firmly held assumptions,
McCarraher argues that capitalism has hijacked our intrinsic
longing for divinity-and urges us to break its hold on our souls.
"A majestic achievement...It is a work of great moral and spiritual
intelligence, and one that invites contemplation about things we
can't afford not to care about deeply." -Commonweal "More
brilliant, more capacious, and more entertaining, page by page,
than his most ardent fans dared hope. The magnitude of his
accomplishment-an account of American capitalism as a
religion...will stun even skeptical readers." -Christian Century
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