IDOLS OF THE MARKET PLACE by Hawkes, David ISBN 0312240074
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This text provides novel readings ofthe Puritan antitheatrical controversy, taking the Puritan position seriously. It includes a comparative history of Byzantine debates over idolatry, and makes the suggestion that the ethical criticism of the developing market economy has relevance for the 2000s.
Postmodern society seems incapable of elaborating an ethical critique of the market economy. Early modern society showed no such reticence. Between 1580 and 1680, Aristotelian teleology was replaced as the dominant mode of philosophy in England by Baconian empiricism. This was a process with implications for every sphere of life: for politics and theology, economics and ethics, aesthetics and sexuality. Through nuanced and original readings of Shakespeare, Herbert, Donne, Milton, Traherne, and Bunyan, David Hawkes sheds light on the antitheatrical controversy, and early modern debates over idolatry and value and trade. Hawkes argues that the people of Renaissance England believed that the decline of telos resulted in a reified, fetishistic mode of consciousness which manifests itself in such phenomena as religious idolatry, commodity fetish, and carnal sensuality. He suggests that the resulting early modern critique of the market economy has much to offer postmodern society.
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[edit] Title
IDOLS OF THE MARKET PLACE
[edit] Author
Hawkes, David
[edit] ISBN
0312240074
[edit] Published
18/10/2001
[edit] Publisher
Palgrave
[edit] Binding
hardback
[edit] Retail Price
50 (GBP)
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49 (GBP)
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