| Credo Credit Crisis: Speculations on Faith and Money Contributor(s): Tynan, Aidan (Editor), Milesi, Laurent (Editor), Müller, Christopher John (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1783483806 ISBN-13: 9781783483808 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $152.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Religious - Philosophy | Political - Political Science | Political Economy |
| Dewey: 261.85 |
| LCCN: 2017950798 |
| Series: Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.3" W x 9" (1.75 lbs) 374 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Milesi, Laurent: - Laurent Milesi is a Tenured Professor in English Literature and Critical Theory at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and former Chair of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University.Tynan, Aidan: - Aidan Tynan is a Lecturer in the Cardiff School of English, Communication and Philosophy. He is the author of Deleuze's Literary Clinic: Criticism and the Politics of Symptoms (2012).Muller Christopher John: - Christopher John Müller is an Honorary Research Associate in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University and an Associate Teacher at the University of Bristol. His recent publications include 'Desert Ethics: Technology and the Question of Evil in Günther Anders and Jacques Derrida', Parallax (2015), 21 (1): 42-57 and 'Style and Arrogance: The Ethics of Heidegger's Style', Style in Theory: Between Literature and Philosophy, ed. Ivan Callus, Gloria Lauri-Lucente, James Corby (Continuum, 2013), pp. 141-162. His work draws on Literature, Philosophy and Critical Theory to address the manner in which technological and linguistic structures shape human perception, agency and interaction. http: //www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/260789-muller-christopher |