Trading Futures - A Theological Critique of Financialized Capitalism (Hardcover)

The discourse of financialized capitalism tries to create a future predictable enough to manage risk for the wealthy, to shape the future into a profit-making site that constrains and privatizes the sense of what's possible. Here, people's hopes and meaning-making energies are policed through the burden of debt. In Trading Futures Filipe Maia offers a theological reflection on hope and the future, calling for escape routes from the debt economy. Drawing on Marxism, continental philosophy, and Latin American liberation theology, Maia provides a critical portrayal of financialization as a death-dealing mechanism that colonizes the future in its own image. Maia elaborates a Christian eschatology of liberation that offers a subversive mode of imagining future possibilities. He shows how the Christian vocabulary of hope can offer a way to critique the hegemony of financialized capitalism, propelling us in the direction of a just future that financial discourse cannot manage or control.

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Filipe Maia
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-1-4780-1614-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General Books > Business & Economics > Finance & accounting > Finance > General Books > Money & Finance > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4780-1614-0
Barcode:	9781478016144

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