Enchantments of Mammon
Enchantments of Mammon Far from displacing religions, as has been supposed, capitalism became one, with money as its deity. At least since Max Weber, capitalism has been understood as part of the…
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Enchantments of Mammon
Far from displacing religions, as has been supposed, capitalism became one, with money as its deity. At least since Max Weber, capitalism has been understood as part of the "disenchantment" of the world, stripping material objects and social relations of their mystery and sacredness. Eugene McCarraher reveals how mammon ensnared us and how we can find a more humane, sacramental way of being in the world.If socialists and Wall Street bankers can agree on anything, it is the extreme rationalism of capital.
Capitalism, he argues, is full of sacrament, whether or not it is acknowledged. Ignoring the motive force of the spirit, capitalism rejects the awe-inspiring divine for the economics of supply and demand.Eugene McCarraher challenges this conventional view. Capitalist enchantment first flowered in the fields and factories of England and was brought to America by