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The enchantments of Mammon: how capitalism became the religion of modernity
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The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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2019.
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English
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9780674984615
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Part one. The dearest freshness deep down things: capitalist enchantment in Europe, 1600-1914:
1. About his business: the medieval sacramental economy, the Protestant theology of "improvement," and the emergence of capitalist enchantment
2.The god among commodities: Christian political economy, Marx on fetishism, and the power of money in bourgeois society
3. The poetry of the past: Romantic anticapitalism and the sacramental imagination
Part two. A hundred dollars, a hundred devils: Mammon in America, 1492-1870:
4. Errand into the marketplace: the Puritan covenant theology of capitalism
5. The righteous friends of Mammon: evangelicals, Mormons, slaveholders, and the proprietary dispensation
6. Glows and glories and final illustriousness: transcendentalism, the religion of the slaves, and the romantic imagination in antebellum America
Part three. The mystical body of business: the corporate reconstruction of capitalist enchantment, 1870-1920:
7. God gave me my money: the incorporation of America and the persistence of evangelical enchantment
8. The soulful corporation: corporate fetishism and the incorporation of enchantment
9. Blazers of the one true way: corporate humanism, management theory, and the mechanization of communion
10. The spirit of the thing: advertising and the incorporation of the beatific vision
11. Modern communion: corporate liberalism and imperialist eschatology
Part four. The beloved commonwealth: visions of cooperative enchantment, 1870-1920:
12. The producers' jeremiad: the populist reformation of the covenant theology
13. The cross is bending: the socialist jeremiad and the covenant theology
14. The priesthood of art: anarchism, arts and crafts, and the re-enchantment of the world
15. Another kingdom of being: the crisis of metaphysical experience and the search for passionate vision
Part five. The heavenly city of Fordism: enchantment in the machine age, 1920-1945:
16. Business is the soul of America: the new capitalism and the business millennium
17. The American century and the magic kingdom: mythologies of the machine age
18. A new order and creed: human relations as Fordist moral philosophy
19. Beauty as the new business tool: advertising, industrial design, and the enchantment of corporate modernism
Part six. Predicaments of human divinity: critics of Fordist enchantment, 1920-1945:
20. The mysticism of numbers: postwar enthusiasm for technocracy
21. Secular prayers and impieties: the cultural front as migration of the holy
22. Small is beautiful: the religion of small property and Lewis Mumford's Novum organum
23. Human divinity: F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Agee, and the son of God
Part seven. One vast and ecumenical holding company: the prehistory of neoliberal enchantment, 1945-1975:
24. God's in his heaven, all's right with the world: the political economy of containment and the economic theology of the Cold War consensus
25. Machines of loving grace: auguries of the corporate counterculture
26. The new testament of capitalism: the resurgence of evangelical enchantment and the theology of neoliberalism
27. The statues of Daedalus: postmaterialism and the failure of the liberal imagination
28. To live instead of making history: Herbert Marcuse, Norman O. Brown, and the romantic eschatology of immanence
29. Heaven which exists and is everywhere around us: the sacramental vision of postwar utopians.
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