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Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times Ser.: Spirit of French Capitalism : Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment by Charly Coleman (2021, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherStanford University Press
ISBN-101503608433
ISBN-139781503608436
eBay Product ID (ePID)13050089744
Product Key Features
Number of Pages392 Pages
Publication NameSpirit of French Capitalism : Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2021
SubjectChristian Theology / General, Europe / France, Christianity / Denominations, General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaReligion, Political Science, History
AuthorCharly Coleman
SeriesCurrencies: New Thinking for Financial Times Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight27.6 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2020-020357
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsColeman's book offers a valuable example of research on the connection of theological notions and religious practices, on the one hand, and the field of French political economy during the 17th and 18th centuries, on the other. The main contribution is definitely to clarify the long history of the semantic crossing between theological and economic representation, opening the way to future interdisciplinary research carried out between theologians and historians of economic thought. , "What Coleman's book does..., it does well--namely, uncover ways that economic thought in the eighteenth century continued to rest upon religious sentiments. In so doing, he contributes another significant piece to the puzzle of the intellectual history of early modern France."--Daniel J. Watkins, Journal of Modern History, The Spirit of French Capitalism is a brilliant, provocative book that deserves a wide readership. Charly Coleman compellingly argues that to understand the genesis of modern capitalism, we need to understand how economic visions of unlimited consumption and plenitude arose out of the 'economic theology' of the Catholic Reformation. Delving deep into theological debates of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Coleman traces surprising connections to the period's economic thought--and economic practice as well.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal261.8508828244
Table Of ContentIntroduction 1. The Economy of the Mysteries 2. Perpetual Penance and Frequent Communion 3. The Spirit of Speculation 4. Usury Redeemed 5. The Cult of Consumption 6. Luxury and the Origins of the Fetish Epilogue: Encounters with Economic Theology
SynopsisHow did the economy become bound up with faith in infinite wealth creation and obsessive consumption? Drawing on the economic writings of eighteenth-century French theologians, historian Charly Coleman uncovers the surprising influence of the Catholic Church on the development of capitalism. Even during the Enlightenment, a sense of the miraculous did not wither under the cold light of calculation. Scarcity, long regarded as the inescapable fate of a fallen world, gradually gave way to a new belief in heavenly as well as worldly affluence. Animating this spiritual imperative of the French economy was a distinctly Catholic ethic that--in contrast to Weber's famous "Protestant ethic"--privileged the marvelous over the mundane, consumption over production, and the pleasures of enjoyment over the rigors of delayed gratification. By viewing money, luxury, and debt through the lens of sacramental theory, Coleman demonstrates that the modern economy casts far beyond rational action and disenchanted designs, and in ways that we have yet to apprehend fully.
LC Classification NumberBX1795.C35C65 2021
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