Critical Enthusiasm Capital Accumulation and the Transformation of Religious Passion
Critical Enthusiasm Capital Accumulation and the Transformation of Religious Passion
- ISBN 13:
9780199328826
- ISBN 10:
019932882X
- Edition: Reprint
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 09/01/2013
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
Critical Enthusiasm contributes to new directions of scholarship in literary and legal history, secularization studies, and economic criticism. It is unique in producing a model for literary and cultural study that is simultaneously attuned to economic and religious forces. By approaching the history of capitalism through religious debates, Critical Enthusiasm discloses significant intersections of aesthetic form and of financial flows that have been hitherto ignored. Through chapters that highlight moral philosophy, religious prophesy, early modern statute law, poetry, and political theory, Rosenberg shows that the contested nature of enthusiastic rapture is crucial to understanding the major institutional transformations of early modernity. These transformations--colonial plunder, the rise of finance, the administration of racialized labor, and the legal reform that justified such practices--shaped the period; they also laid the foundation for our contemporary world.