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

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Author: McCarraher, Eugene

Format: Hardback | 816 pages

Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

ISBN10 0674984617

ISBN13 9780674984615

Publication date 27 Feb 2020

Dimensions: 156 x 235 x 60.96mm | 1,292.74g

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資本主義非但沒有像人們想象的那樣取代宗教，反而變成了一個以金錢為神的世界。尤金·麥卡拉赫揭示了這個“神”是如何誘拐我們的，以及我們如何找到一種更人道、更神聖的存在方式。

Far from displacing religions, as has been supposed, capitalism became one, with money as its deity. Eugene McCarraher reveals how mammon ensnared us and how we can find a more humane, sacramental way of being in the world.

如果説社會主義者和華爾街銀行家能在任何事情上達成一致，那就是資本的*理性主義。至少從馬克斯?韋伯開始，資本主義就被理解為對世界“祛魅”的一部分，剝奪了物質實體和社會關係的神祕性和神聖性。資本主義忽視了精神的動力，在供求經濟學中拒絕了令人敬畏的神性。

If socialists and Wall Street bankers can agree on anything, it is the extreme rationalism of capital. 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 and sacredness. Ignoring the motive force of the spirit, capitalism rejects the awe-inspiring divine for the economics of supply and demand.

尤金·麥卡拉對這種傳統觀點提出了挑戰。他認為，資本主義充滿了聖禮，不管它是否被承認。資本主義的魅力首先在英國的田野和工廠中開花結果，然後由清教徒和福音派帶到美國，他們的教義為工業和利潤提供了充足的空間。後來，公司被神祕地賦予了人性，以主持福特建立一個機械化生產和交流的天堂之城的努力。到了二十一世紀，資本主義已經完全被新自由主義神化了。

Eugene McCarraher challenges this conventional view. Capitalism, he argues, is full of sacrament, whether or not it is acknowledged. Capitalist enchantment first flowered in the fields and factories of England and was brought to America by Puritans and evangelicals whose doctrine made ample room for industry and profit. Later, the corporation was mystically animated with human personhood, to preside over the Fordist endeavor to build a heavenly city of mechanized production and communion. By the twenty-first century, capitalism has become thoroughly enchanted by the neoliberal deification of "the market."

受文化歷史、神學以及經濟學、管理理論和市場營銷的影響，財神的魅力看起來是19世紀的浪漫主義。浪漫的想象力偏愛工藝、公共物品和對自然奇觀的敏感。它促進勞動，為人的利益，結合了理性、創造性和互助。在這個充滿激情的挑戰中，麥卡拉提出資本主義劫持並重新引導了我們對神性的內在渴望，並敦促我們打破它對我們靈魂的控制。

Informed by cultural history and theology as well as economics, management theory, and marketing, The Enchantments of Mammon looks not to Marx and progressivism but to nineteenth-century Romantics for salvation. The Romantic imagination favors craft, the commons, and sensitivity to natural wonder. It promotes labor that, for the sake of the person, combines reason, creativity, and mutual aid. In this impassioned challenge, McCarraher makes the case that capitalism has hijacked and redirected our intrinsic longing for divinity-and urges us to break its hold on our souls.

作者簡介

尤金·麥卡拉是維拉諾瓦大學的人文學科副教授，著有《基督教批評:現代美國社會思想中的宗教與僵局》。他為持不同政見者和國家寫稿，定期為公益雜誌、刺蝟評論和Raritan撰稿。他的著作《財神的魅力》得到了國家人文學科基金會和美國學術協會的資助。

Eugene McCarraher is Associate Professor of Humanities at Villanova University and the author of Christian Critics: Religion and the Impasse in Modern American Social Thought. He has written for Dissent and The Nation and contributes regularly to Commonweal, The Hedgehog Review, and Raritan. His work on The Enchantments of Mammon was supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies.