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The Split Economy: Saint Paul Goes to Wall Street

The Split Economy: Saint Paul Goes to Wall Street

Wariboko, Nimi

Hardcover

Series: Suny Theology and Continental Thought

PhilosophyEconomicsGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 1438480598
ISBN13: 9781438480596
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Nov 1 2020
Pages: 192
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Draws on philosophy, economics, theology, and psychoanalytic theory to reveal a fundamental dynamic of capitalism.

Starting with Marx and Freud, scholars have attempted to identify the primary ethical challenge of capitalism. They have named injustice, inequality, repression, exploitative empires, and capitalism's psychic hold over all of us, among other ills. Nimi Wariboko instead argues that the core ethical problem of capitalism lies in the split nature of the modern economy, an economy divided against itself. Production is set against finance, consumption against saving, and the future against the present. As the rich enjoy their lifestyle, their fellow citizens live in servitude. The economy mimics the structure of our human subjectivity as Saint Paul theorizes in Romans 7: the law constitutes the subject as split, traversed by negativity. The economy is split, shot through with a fundamental antagonism. This fundamental negativity at the core of the economy disturbs its stability and identity, generating its destructive drive. The Split Economy develops a robust theoretical framework at the intersection of continental philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, theology, and political economy to reveal a fundamental dynamic at the heart of capitalism.

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