D Hawkes

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Idols of the Marketplace: Idolatry and Commodity Fetishism in English Literature, 1580-1680 (2001)Hardcover - 2001, 18 October 2001

Idols of the Marketplace: Idolatry and Commodity Fetishism in English Literature, 1580-1680 (2001)
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Part of Series
Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700
Part of Series
Early Modern Cultural Studies
Print Length
294 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan
Date Published
18 Oct 2001
ISBN-10
0312240074
ISBN-13
9780312240073

Description

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.

Product Details

Author:
D Hawkes
Book Edition:
2001
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
18 October 2001
Dimensions:
21.79 x 14.68 x 2.51 cm
ISBN-10:
0312240074
ISBN-13:
9780312240073
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
294
Weight:
467.2 gm

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