The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity

by Eugene McCarraher

Book Overview

"An extraordinary work of intellectual history as well as a scholarly tour de force, a bracing polemic, and a work of Christian prophecy...McCarraher challenges more than 200 years of post-Enlightenment assumptions about the way we live and work."
--The Observer

At least since Max Weber, capitalism has been understood as part of the "disenchantment" of the world, stripping material objects and social relations of their mystery...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674271092
• ISBN13: 9780674271098
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 816 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"