Eugene McCarraher "The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity"

Eugene McCarraher is Professor of Humanities at Villanova Univeristy. He earned his PhD in history from Rutgers University, and his first book was Christian Critics: Religion and the Impasse in Modern American Social Thought (2000). He contributes regularly to Commonweal, The Hedgehog Review and Raritan and has written for Dissent and The Nation. His most recent book is The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity (2019).
Learn more about Eugene
www1.villanova.edu/university...
For more information and lectures, visit the George Washington Forum website
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  • @GeorgiosMichalopoulos
    @GeorgiosMichalopoulos2 ай бұрын

    This is a very interesting event and very happy it is available online. Without wanting to be rude, it is a bit disappointing that the sound of the presenter is so bad at times.

  • @williamoarlock8634
    @williamoarlock863411 ай бұрын

    And his book is one of the most expensive on kindle...

  • @Wihongi
    @Wihongi2 жыл бұрын

    I understand what he means about the religious nature of advertising he mentions at the start, but I don't think that makes capitalism religious. It's just advertisers taking advantage of our evolutionary predilections toward a narrative, or some form of 'sacramentality' as he calls it around 57:00.

  • @mns8732
    @mns87323 жыл бұрын

    Im reading his book, almost at the end, theres not a area of capitalism that he misses. Im glad theres scholarship on this subject, we need more. But wheres the motivation? He needs a pr person .

  • @patrickvernon4766
    @patrickvernon47668 ай бұрын

    The Manifesto for the Abolition of Enslavement to Interest on Money with explanations provided by Gottfried Feder, Dipl. Engineer

  • @lucasmembrane4763
    @lucasmembrane476311 ай бұрын

    The unique property relationship in the new industrial state appears to now be caused principally by the producing workers having restricted access to the means of efficient marketing and promotion through myth making.

  • @madebyreuben3402
    @madebyreuben34023 жыл бұрын

    Yep faith vs works is such a big piece of what founds capitalism

  • @madebyreuben3402
    @madebyreuben34023 жыл бұрын

    God gave me my money(c)

  • @wherespookie1
    @wherespookie1 Жыл бұрын

    I don't understand how he can feel the way he does about capitalism, but at the same time think consumerism is a good thing. Consumerism is one of the worst things Capitalism has cultivated and has only reinforced the idea of money as God.

  • @ArmonMitchell
    @ArmonMitchell2 жыл бұрын

    Evangelicalism (strictly) isnt the problem as much as White Ethnocentric Evangelicalism

  • @kbeetles

    @kbeetles

    2 жыл бұрын

    Does this comment mean anything at all? Good, buzz words, though!

  • @Joeonline26

    @Joeonline26

    2 ай бұрын

    So essentially just invoking the Christian nationalism buggyman again like most liberals do? Lmao🤣

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