Debt of the Living, The
Ascesis and Capitalism
An analysis of theological and philosophical understandings of debt and its role in contemporary capitalism.Max Weber's account of the rise of capitalism focused on his concept of a Protestant ethic, valuing diligence in earning and saving money but restraint in spending it. However, such individual restraint is foreign to contemporary understandings of finance, which treat ever-increasing consumption and debt as natural, almost essential, for maintaining the economic cycle of buying and selling.In The Debt of the Living, Elettra Stimilli returns to this idea of restraint as ascesis, by analyzing theological and philosophical understandings o…
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Weitere Autoren: Bove, Arianna (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4384-6416-9
- EAN: 9781438464169
- Produktnummer: 35060687
- Verlag: State University of New York Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 216 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 977 KB
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