| The Metaphysics of Trust: Credit and Faith III Contributor(s): Goodchild, Philip (Author) |
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ISBN: 1786614294 ISBN-13: 9781786614292 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $115.83 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Critical Theory - Self-help | Personal Growth - Happiness - Philosophy | Metaphysics |
| Dewey: 179.9 |
| LCCN: 2021010700 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" (1.16 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Following Credit and Faith and Economic Theology, this third volume in the series develops a metaphysics which is missing when trust is ordered around economic theories and institutions. Human existence may be conceived according to its temporal dimensions of appropriation, participation, and offering. Engaging with the Western philosophical tradition from the Neo-Pythagoreans and Plato to Heidegger and Arendt, drawing especially from Augustine and Weil, Goodchild offers striking reconstructions of the meanings of economic, political and religious dimensions of life. The outcome is an elaboration of conceptions of wealth, power, contingency, necessity and grace which give a new orientation to human life and endeavour. Goodchild situates this discussion within the current historical era of the breakdown of global financial capitalism. He draws from the Financial Revolution in England as a time of crisis which illuminates our own. Faced with a range of global crises, Goodchild proposes an alternative between strategies for survival: either submission before a Great Machine of Credit as an autonomous, unthinking system for regulating human behaviour or accession to the necessity of grace as a way of empowering the pursuit of wealth, justice and thought. |