Credo credit crisis : speculations on faith and money /
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Imprint: | London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2017] ©2017 |
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Description: | ix, 364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Critical perspectives on theory, culture and politics Critical perspectives on theory, culture and politics. |
Subject: | Economics -- Religious aspects. Economics -- Religious aspects. Financial crises. Money -- Moral and ethical aspects. Money -- Religious aspects. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11341503 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Speculative exchange: Between religion and economics
- Section 1. Modernity and the Trajectories of Sovereignty
- 1. The ascendancy of finance: Toward a concept of Seignioral power
- 2. Hobbes, sovereign power and money
- 3. 'Accelerator despite Itself: Credo, crisis, Katechon
- Section 2. The Living Soul of Money
- 4. The Bank of England in ruins: Photography, money and the law of equivalence
- 5. Seeing is believing: Looking at the gold standard
- 6. Universal Shylockery: Money and morality in The Merchant of Venice
- 7. 'We are all prostitutes': Crisis and libidinal economy
- 8. The materiality of belief: On the real death of Mammon
- Section 3. Speculation and Critique
- 9. Impotent signs: Money, speculative subjectivity and the ontological proof
- 10. Speculation upon speculation; or, a contribution to the critique of philosophical economy
- 11. Believing in deconstruction
- Section 4. Future Revelations
- 12. Credit and investment: A matter of faith
- 13. How do we know we have a future?
- Index
- Notes on contributors