The Travails and Tragedies of a Market Civilization: A Psychology of Faith Perspective
In this article, I consider how the emergence of a market society, dominated by a neoliberal capitalist ethos, fosters a market faith and entrepreneurial subjects. More particularly, I argue that market faith is contractual and accompanies a calculative, reifying rationality that contrasts with soci...
| Published in: | Pastoral psychology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science Business Media B. V.
[2018]
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Pastoral psychology
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| RelBib Classification: | VA Philosophy ZB Sociology ZD Psychology |
| Further subjects: | B
Civilization
B Neoliberal ethos B Entrepreneurship B Freud B Subjectivity B Macmurray B Faith B Fanon B Market society B Capitalism B Commodification B Sociopathic tendencies |
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| Summary: | In this article, I consider how the emergence of a market society, dominated by a neoliberal capitalist ethos, fosters a market faith and entrepreneurial subjects. More particularly, I argue that market faith is contractual and accompanies a calculative, reifying rationality that contrasts with social-communal faith that is ideally unconditional, covenantal, and personalizing. Since faith is inextricably linked to subjectivity, I contend and describe two subjectivities associated with a market society's disciplinary regimes and faith. The first subject of a market society is a neoliberal subject with sociopathic tendencies. The second subject that a market society fosters is a depleted subjecta depleted homo oeconomicusforced to live beyond his/her psychological means. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6679 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Pastoral psychology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11089-017-0761-5 |