The capitalist market, progressives bemoan, is a cold monster: it
disrupts social bonds, erodes emotional attachments, and imposes an
abstract utilitarian rationality. But what if such hallowed
critiques are completely misleading? This book argues that the
production of new sources of faith and enchantment is crucial to
the dynamics of the capitalist economy. Distinctively secular
patterns of attraction and attachment give modern institutions a
binding force that was not available to more traditional forms of
rule. Elaborating his alternative approach through an engagement
with the semiotics of money and the genealogy of economy, Martijn
Konings uncovers capitalism's emotional and theological content in
order to understand the paradoxical sources of cohesion and
legitimacy that it commands. In developing this perspective, he
draws on pragmatist thought to rework and revitalize the Marxist
critique of capitalism.
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