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Money facilitates the rites and rituals we perform in everyday life. More than a mere medium of exchange or a measure of value, it is the primary means by which we manifest a faith unique to our secular age.

But what happens when individual belief (credo, ‘I’ believe) and the systems into which it is bound (credit, ‘it’ believes) enter into crisis? Where did the sacredness of money come from, and does it have a future? Why do we talk about debt and repayment in overtly moral terms? How should a theological critique of capitalism proceed today?

With the effects of the 2008 economic crises continuing to be felt across the world, this volume brings together some of the most important contemporary voices in philosophy, literature, theology, and critical and cultural theory together in one volume to assert the need to interrogate and broaden the terms of the theological critique of capitalism.

Table of Contents

Introduction ,Christopher John Müller and Aidan Tynan / Part I: Modernity and the Trajectories of Sovereignty / 1. Towards a Concept of Seignorial Power, Joseph Vogl / 2. Hobbes, Sovereign Power and Money, Peter Sedgwick / 3. Accelerator despite Itself: Credo, Crisis, Katechon, Arthur Bradley / Part II: The Living Soul of Money / 4. The Bank of England in Ruins: Photography, Money and the Law of Equivalence, Christopher John Müller and Ian Wiblin / 5. Seeing is Believing: A visual history of the end of the gold standard, Nicky Marsh / 6. 'Universal Shylockery: Money and Morality in The Merchant of Venice' , Simon Critchley and Tom McCarthy / 7. 'We are All Prostitutes': Crisis and Libidinal Economy, Benjamin Noys / 8. The Materiality of Belief: On the Real Death of Mammon, Hollis Phelps / Part III: Speculation and Critique / 9. Impotent Signs: Money, Speculative Subjectivity, and the Ontological Proof, Aidan Tynan / 10. Speculation upon Speculation; or, a Contribution to the Critique of Philosophical Economy

Product details

Published Aug 25 2017
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 374
ISBN 9781783483822
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Illustrations 12 b/w photos;
Series Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Aidan Tynan

Anthology Editor

Laurent Milesi

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