The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment

How did the economy become bound up with faith in infinite wealth creation and obsessive consumption? Drawing...
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Author: Charly Coleman
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The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment by Coleman, Charly

The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment

€62,90

The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment

€62,90
Author: Charly Coleman
Format: Paperback
Language: English

How 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.



Author: Charly Coleman
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 03/16/2021
Pages: 392
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781503614826

About the Author
Charly Coleman is Associate Professor of History at Columbia University. He is the author of The Virtues of Abandon: An Anti-Individualist History of the French Enlightenment (Stanford, 2014), which was awarded the 2016 Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies.

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