ABSTRACT

Our global ecological crisis demands that we question the rationality of the culture that has caused it: western modernity's free market capitalism. Philip Goodchild develops arguments from Nietzsche, Adorno, Horkheimer, and Marx, to suggest that our love of Western modernity is an expression of a piety in which capitalism becomes a global religion, in practice, if not always in belief. This book presents a philosophical alternative that demands attention from philosophers, critical theorists, philosophers of religion, theologians, and those in ecological politics.

chapter |14 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

Part I The problem of reason

chapter 1|26 pages

The murder of God

chapter 2|26 pages

Truth

chapter 3|30 pages

Price

part |2 pages

Part II The problem of ethics

chapter 4|24 pages

Freedom

chapter 5|20 pages

Value

chapter 6|26 pages

Potency

part |2 pages

Part III The problem of piety

chapter 7|22 pages

Piety

chapter 8|22 pages

Experience

chapter 9|24 pages

Awakening

chapter 10|8 pages

Conclusion