The enchantments of Mammon : how capitalism became the religion of modernity / Eugene McCarraher.
| Author/creator | McCarraher, Eugene author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. |
| Description | 1 online resource (xii, 799 pages) |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Part One. The Dearest Freshness Deep Down Things: Capitalist Enchantment in Europe, 1600-1914 -- 1. About His Business -- 2. The God among Commodities -- 3. The Poetry of the Past -- Part Two. A Hundred Dollars, a Hundred Devils: Mammon in America, 1492-1870 -- 4. Errand into the Marketplace -- 5. The Righteous Friends of Mammon -- 6. Glows and Glories and Final Illustriousness -- Part Three. The Mystical Body of Business: The Corporate Reconstruction of Capitalist Enchantment, 1870-1920 -- 7. God Gave Me My Money -- 8. The Soulful Corporation -- 9. Blazers of the One True Way -- 10. The Spirit of the Thing -- 11. Modern Communion -- Part Four. The Beloved Commonwealth: Visions of Cooperative Enchantment, 1870-1920 -- 12. The Producers' Jeremiad -- 13. The Cross Is Bending -- 14. The Priesthood of Art -- 15. Another Kingdom of Being -- Part Five. The Heavenly City of Fordism: Enchantment in the Machine Age, 1920-1945 -- 16. Business Is the Soul of America -- 17. The American Century and the Magic Kingdom -- 18. A New Order and Creed -- 19. Beauty as the New Business Tool -- Part Six. Predicaments of Human Divinity: Critics of Fordist Enchantment, 1920-1945 -- 20. The Mysticism of Numbers -- 21. Secular Prayers and Impieties -- 22. Small Is Beautiful -- 23. Human Divinity -- 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 -- 25. Machines of Loving Grace -- 26. The New Testament of Capitalism -- 27. The Statues of Daedalus -- 28. To Live Instead of Making History -- 29. Heaven Which Exists and Is Everywhere around Us -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
| Abstract | Eugene McCarraher challenges the conventional view of capitalism as a force for disenchantment. From Puritan and evangelical valorizations of profit to the heavenly Fordist city, the mystically animated corporation, and the deification of the market, capitalism has hijacked our intrinsic longing for divinity, laying hold to our souls. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 16, 2019). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: McCarraher, Eugene. Enchantments of Mammon : How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, ©2019 9780674984615 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 0674242769 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 9780674242760 (electronic book) |