Capitalism and Religion The Price of Piety |
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Author:
| Goodchild, Philip |
ISBN: | 978-1-280-05471-6 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2002 |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Group
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $133.00 |
Book Description:
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Our global ecological crisis demands that we question the rationality of the culture that has caused it: Western modernity's global free market capitalism. Goodchild develops arguments from Nietzsche, Adorno and Horkheimer to suggests that our love of Western modernity is an expression of a piety and that it has become a global religion in practice, if not always in belief. He condemns modernity, presenting a philosophical alternative that demands attention from philosophers, critical...
More DescriptionOur global ecological crisis demands that we question the rationality of the culture that has caused it: Western modernity's global free market capitalism. Goodchild develops arguments from Nietzsche, Adorno and Horkheimer to suggests that our love of Western modernity is an expression of a piety and that it has become a global religion in practice, if not always in belief. He condemns modernity, presenting a philosophical alternative that demands attention from philosophers, critical theorists, philosophers of religion, theologians and those in ecological politics.