McCarraher, therefore, prefers to speak not of disenchantment, but of “misenchantment”—spiritual captivity to the glamor of an especially squalid god. His most recent book is That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation (Yale University Press). It is, moreover, a work delightfully subversive of the standard story of how this vision of things progressively became the very shape of the world we all now share (or, I suppose it would be better to say, the world we do not really share at all). But the book is far more than that. He's now at work on an anatomy of corporate capitalism and what he regards as the baleful spell it has cast on the American moral imagination. McCarraher’s is an essentially Christian Romantic vision. The misunderstanding is unfortunate, since it strikes a discordant note just at the close of a book that might well be called symphonic in form, and in the course of which McCarraher sounds a great many McIntyrean themes of his own. Refuting the commonly told subtraction story (we learned science and got rid of religion), Taylor told a fuller and more nuanced and detailed story. And, of course, it was this evangelical fervor for “improving” the land and the people who worked it that became the chief justification for displacing the native peoples of the New World, and for condemning them as lazy, unenterprising, sybaritic, and positively wicked in their preference for living off the land’s bounty rather than transforming the wilds into fixed forms of private property. It might, if nothing else, have dwelt a little less exclusively on capitalism’s “Anglo-Saxonism” (as the French would say), and perhaps explored at greater length the rise of capitalism in the late-medieval and early-modern Italian city-states, or the occult ties between early capitalist economics and Iberian colonialism in the Americas and the rebirth of chattel slavery. And he has the discernment to recognize the potentially radical political philosophies latent in many places we might typically regard as lying altogether outside the political, such as John Muir’s nature-mysticism. How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity So, in the end, while the story McCar-raher tells is principally one of alienation and loss, idolatry and willful blindness to beauty, it is also a tale about all those lingering sparks of an older metaphysics of creation as divine glory that might still be gathered up and kindled into a full flame. It includes an historical flyover of “the long and honorable tradition of socialist thinking” in this country, with particular attention (we should note) to libertarian socialism. McCarraher agrees with both socialists and libertarians that the essential characteristic of modern capitalism is its rationality. Capitalism, he wrote in Past and Present (1843), bore "the Gospel of Mammonism," in which money, through its "miraculous facilities," held its devotees "spell-bound in a horrid enchantment." McCarraher urges us to stop thinking of the modern age as the godless sequel to the ages of faith, and recognize it instead as a period of the most destructive kind of superstition, one in which acquisition and ambition have become our highest moral aims, consumer goods (the more intrinsically worthless the better) our fetishes, and impossible promises of limitless material felicity our shared eschatology. All rights reserved. He longs instead for a truly sacral view of creation, approached with a sensibility open to transcendence. Eugene McCarraher is Associate Professor of Humanities at Villanova University and the author of Christian Critics: Religion and the Impasse in Modern American Social Thought. Even if McCarraher rejects the notion that ours is an age of disenchantment, he recognizes that its intrinsic hostility to everything genuinely enchanting is itself a kind of rapture of the soul toward impalpable realms and unseen divinities. Here, bright with the luster of holiness but unencumbered by the cultural traces of older orders of spiritual value, it took deep root and flourished without hindrance. In a sense, America was born out of the transition from a Christian to a capitalist religious sensibility, mediated through the Puritan’s odd inversion of Christianity’s celebration of sacred dispossession into an ethos of unostentatious wealth. Rather than a sane calculation of material possibilities and human motives, it is in fact an enthusiast cult of insatiable consumption allied to a degrading metaphysics of human nature. Moreover, as much as McCarraher’s is a history of capitalism’s slow but inexorable triumph, both as a concrete reality and as a transcendental ideal, it is also a more heartening history of resistance. Ignoring the motive force of the spirit, capitalism rejects the awe-inspiring divine for the economics of supply and demand. © 2021 Commonweal Magazine. Our big question this year, you'll recall, is How can followers of Christ be a counterculture for the common good? The Enchantments of Mammon is a magnificent book. He too refuses to consent to modern secularism’s claims for itself, even while eschewing the traditionalist’s politics of nostalgia. If socialists and Wall Street bankers can agree on anything, it is the extreme rationalism of capital. This longing for creation without money is vital to understanding McCarraher’s variety of Christian socialism, which is rooted in the classical understanding of God’s free creation of the world. As Fr. But in the face of that "Gospel"whose fruits Friedrich Engels would judge in The Condition of the Working Classes in England (1845)Carlyle recommended, not the apostasy of revolution, but an evangel of Work. It is an ethics, before all else, of the commons, permitted once again to flourish, to run to seed, to overflow, and to offer shelter to all. Sign Up For Our Newsletter To celebrate, we’re collecting poems and writings about poetry, with new additions by our literary critic every Friday. If socialists and Wall Street bankers can agree on anything, it is the extreme rationalism of capital. April is National Poetry Month. Catholic, independent, opinionated. He is sharply critical of the underlying assumptions and damaging consequences of modern capitalism with its emphasis on extractive efficiency and profit-making. David Bentley Hart is a frequent contributor to Commonweal. Finally, Eugene McCarraher launches a scathing critique of Beyond Secular Order, with excoriations of Milbank for all manner of theocratic colonization that has in turn brought a surprising and interesting response from Milbank: he might actually be a working-class socialist. Such was the strange malaise of our times as captured by the late Mark Fisher’s notion […] Eugene McCarraher (Ph.D., Rutgers University) is a Catholic intellectual and historian. 561 talking about this. Economic theories — capitalism, Marxism, socialism — are ideologies: they’re based on ideas that can’t be proven scientifically; they require belief. The Enchantments of Mammon Eugene McCarraher reveals how mammon ensnared us and how we can find a more humane, sacramental way of being in the world. A journal at the intersection of … He too finds the modern displacement of any moral grammar based on the cultivation of virtues by a fragmentary ethos of private values, public platitudes, and voluntarist individualisms a depressing reality. Against the cant of diligence and virtue. He … He devotes, for instance, many extremely illuminating pages to the Puritan ethic, as it took shape first in Britain and then in the American colonies, and to the ways in which Puritan homiletics and moral discourse provided an empty rhetoric denouncing Mammon’s seductions while quietly laying a firm basis for Mammon’s reign. A great part of capitalism’s power over our imaginations, McCar-raher suggests, is derived from the authority it borrowed from a Christian language that had become detached from the larger rationality of the sacramental love of the world. When he was released ten years later, he was a Christian ethicist and political thinker. But this is an abundance visible only to love. Please email comments to [email protected] and join the conversation on our Facebook page. In “How I Became a Socialist” (1894), his own account of his political transformation, Morris admitted that while he “put some conscience toward trying to learn the economical side of Socialism”—he “even tackled Marx” and his “great work,” Capital—he experienced “agonies of confusions of the brain.” Besides, Morris wrote, he “had no transitional period”; while the SDF … In Rachel Cusk’s eleventh novel, questions about art, creativity, and freedom have elusive answers. Of course, no story—or none worth telling—really has a single discrete beginning or a single definitive conclusion. The common ethos to which he is principally devoted is one that relies first upon God’s grace and love, as expressed in creation’s heedless generosity, and that presumes a kind of immanent sacredness in the world available only to those who are willing to receive it as a common inheritance. McCarraher’s is an essentially Christian Romantic vision. That's a nice encapsulation of capitalism's grotesquely religious character, akin to Marx's later exposition of "commodity fetishism." By contrast, the figure of St. Benedict as MacIntyre employs it has a very precise meaning: Benedict represents a moment when—in the lengthening twilight of a dissolving classical and Christian civilization—the slow labor of rescuing, recovering, and even reconstructing a unified Christian ethos was inaugurated. He longs for a culture that would treat nature not as a reservoir of morally neutral resources waiting to be converted into private affluence, but rather as an abundance freely given and freely shared within the embrace of a spiritual order of participation. Eugene McCarraher is perhaps my favorite leftist. Please see Wikipedia's template documentation for further citation fields that may be required. A Brief History of Recent Catholic Political Discourse In the United States, 2016 A.D. was a dramatic year in political history, with a surge of socialist organizing around the Democratic Primary bid of Senator Bernie Sanders and the unexpected election of President Donald Trump. You must have JavaScript enabled to use this form. 2019, The enchantments of Mammon : how capitalism became the religion of modernity / Eugene McCarraher The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts. Socialism’s champions know how to take effective whacks at capitalism, but diagnosis is not yet the cure. Eugene McCarraher, The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became The Religion of Modernity, (Cambridge, MA: Belknap at Harvard University Press, 2019). McCarraher, Eugene. But only the most earnestly zealous of the apostles of this new faith could have imagined that theirs would one day become the sole unchallenged religion of the entire globe. Eugene McCarraher (2019), The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. Far less does it represent the triumph of a more “realist” and “pragmatic” understanding of private wealth and civil society. But no book can do everything and this one is already a majestic achievement. He understands that his is also a vision that requires a certain pragmatic economics, and he does not neglect material theory in recommending the spiritual values he believes in. Above all, like MacIntyre, McCarraher both recognizes and detests capitalism’s spoliations of creation and disintegration of communities, and casts a fond, forlorn eye toward the possibility of restoring a rationality of genuine human life. Socialism reflects the divine order by creating a cooperative society. The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity By: Eugene McCarraher [Audiobook] | Audiobooks - Pol/Soc/Relig | MP3@32.0kb/s | 480.11 MiB 2020-08-04 | ASIN: 1705214266 Home The baptismal waters of the Atlantic washed away the last lingering traces of a genuinely Christian vision of things, and what reached our shores was an altogether new religion. Against both Max Weber and Charles Taylor however, he argues that this logic … For him, the only true path of resistance to capitalism’s destructive energies is one that leads away from the logic of the market: away, that is, from the idea that wealth-creation should be the highest constitutive good of any culture, and from the notion that technological power over nature should be the moral … Eugene McCarraher reveals how mammon ensnared us and how we can find a more humane, sacramental way of being in the world. There are Catholic chapters perhaps yet to be added to the predominantly Protestant story that McCarraher tells. Undaunted by the apparent triumph of American capitalism, he still labors in the small, neglected fields of Christian Socialism. He has written for Dissent and The Nation and contributes regularly to Commonweal , The Hedgehog Review , and Raritan . Eugene McCarraher. Above all, he shows how pernicious the Puritan language of godly “improvement” proved when used to justify—even to sanctify—what otherwise would have been called avarice and plunder. McCarraher does believe that the human soul has a stable and divinely ordained set of needs, but he reminds us that this need not entail conservative politics. In that time, he has become a beloved writer on the Christian left—an intellectual historian with a muscular, polemical prose style and a sharp sense of humor, who was willing to call himself a socialist long before that label became … Harvard University Press.Thomas Piketty (2020), Capital and Ideology. If socialists and Wall Street bankers can agree on anything, it is the extreme rationalism of capital. When Myroslav Marynovych was arrested at twenty-eight, he was agnostic. From Puritan and evangelical valorizations of profit to the heavenly Fordist city, the mystically animated corporation, and the deification of the market, capitalism has hijacked our intrinsic longing for divinity, laying hold to our souls. A nuanced portrait of the lives and worship spaces of womanpriests. In the penultimate paragraph of his enormous and extraordinary new book The Enchantments of Mammon, McCarraher conflates Alasdair MacIntyre’s famous invocation of St. Benedict at the end of After Virtue with what has come misleadingly to be called the “Benedict Option,” rejecting both together as though they were identical in meaning—which is to say, as if both offered a counsel of Christian disengagement from modern society and issued a call to withdrawal into isolated communities. Like MacIntyre, McCarraher is impatient with those tedious modern dogmatisms that masquerade as deliverances of enlightened and disinterested rationality. And so his sympathies lie elsewhere. Addressing this question is more or less a fulltime occupation for Gene McCarraher, who teaches humanities at Villanova University. First up: The Enchantments of Mammon. Eugene McCarraher reveals how mammon ensnared us and how we can find a more humane, sacramental way of being in the world. In fact, much of the secular left comes across in these pages as, at best, naïve about capitalism’s power to absorb everything into the logic of the market and, at worst, complicit in that logic. And even these critics and dissidents are scrupulously differentiated from one another in McCarraher’s account, as are the varying degrees to which they either succeeded or failed in rejecting Mammon’s enchantments to the end. Panelists Bethany Joy Kim Matthew Tan Jonathan Tran Devin Singh Hopefully you’ve watched the other videos in this series and you want to learn more. Eugene McCarraher McCarraher argues that modern capitalism has not been a secularizing movement from enchantment to disenchantment, but rather an alternative, competing form of enchantment. Wikipedia Citation. Long before the Democratic National Committee got religion, McCarraher was arguing that the American Left needed to rediscover its theological roots. This book is a brilliant work of history. McCarraher has been working on The Enchantments of Mammon for almost 20 years. Reflecting on the misery of industrial England in the 1840s, Thomas Carlyle mixed acute discernment with moralistic perversity. It is the coldest and most stupefying of idolatries: a faith that has forsaken the sacral understanding of creation as something charged with God’s grandeur, flowing from the inexhaustible wellsprings of God’s charity, in favor of an entirely opposed order of sacred attachments. He too laments the reduction of ethical reasoning to little more than assertions of the will and celebrations of private property as the supreme index of the good. It is, before all else, a sheer marvel of patient scholarship, history on a grand scale and in the best tradition of historical writing: a comprehensive account of the rise and triumph of capitalism in the modern age, not only as an economics, but also as our most pervasive and dominant system of ultimate values. (McCarraher’s treatment of John Winthrop’s “theology of ethnic cleansing” is especially harrowing.). Commonweal writers have long engaged with the church’s stance on labor rights, worker justice, and income inequality. He lives in Birmingham, Alabama.Aaron Anderson – Managing EditorAaron lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where he works as a higher education administrator. The dreams of one epoch inevitably yield to the disappointments of another. For him, the only true path of resistance to capitalism’s destructive energies is one that leads away from the logic of the market: away, that is, from the idea that wealth-creation should be the highest constitutive good of any culture, and from the notion that technological power over nature should be the moral ideal of a sane human society. This is an unofficial page for followers of Eugene McCarraher's work. How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity by Eugene McCarraher. Eugene McCarraher is an associate professor of humanities and history and the associate director of the honors program at Villanova University. FoundersJoshua Davis – Executive DirectorJoshua Davis is an Episcopalian theologian and educator who has taught at several universities and seminaries, including The General Theological Seminary. One might believe, as he seems to, that no present or past regime has adequately met those needs—that the society built for man does not lie in our squalid past, but in the future that lies on the far side of capitalism’… A former Charles Ryskamp Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (2005-2006), he has written for Books and Culture , Commonweal , Dissent , In These Times , The Nation , the Chicago Tribune , The Hedgehog … Furthermore, since without money it is “impossible to speak of rational production”—“rational” defined as profit-making—then socialist production “could never be directed by economic considerations.”. The reason thinkers like Kurt Andersen and Eugene McCarraher both use the term “dangerous” in connection with economic belief is because of the fundamentalist dynamics that invariably accompany ideological belief, secular or … Hence too, America’s historically unique fusion of the opulent and the barbaric, the devout and the rapacious. What began as a destructive heresy in Britain—as factory manufacture displaced free artisanal production, and as enclosure of the commons progressively destroyed communal usufructs—was only made all the more pernicious by its transplantation to the New World. Maurice, a theologian and cleric, argued that cooperation is the moral law of the divine moral order. And so deep is our faith in these things that we are willing to sacrifice the whole of creation in their service. This is an error. It is also a work of profound moral insight: a searing spiritual critique of a vision of reality that reduces everything mysterious, beautiful, fragile, and potentially transcendent in human experience to instances of—or opportunities for—acquisition and personal power, and that seeks no end higher than the transformation of creation’s substantial goods into the lifeless abstraction of monetary value. One thing a reader will certainly take away from McCarraher’s treatment of many forms of classical socialism is that capitalism’s capacity for translating everything—even dissent from capitalism—into a kind of bourgeois commodity is all but infinite. Money’s indispensable role, he had written in 1920, was in “determining the value of production goods.”. And Eugene McCarraher destroys it. Perhaps there might arise a new St. Benedict or two, or a few million, who could strive to overcome the ethics of sanctified greed that separates human beings from one another and from the rest of the -natural world, and who might inspire a renewed awareness that the holiness of living things far surpasses the charms of lifeless wealth. It was also the year when a group of Catholics made… Part II connects our basic moral instincts with Robinson’s set of socialist principles, especially solidarity, equality, and freedom. For instance, McCarraher is pitilessly honest about those forms of traditional socialism and communism that have all too often recapitulated the superstitions of industrial production and management, routinized labor, the technological conquest of nature, and the mechanisms of the modern nation-state. Eugene McCarraher reveals how mammon ensnared us and how we can find a more humane, sacramental way of being in the world. And this is partly because our age inherited all the sacred intuitions and longings for glorious transformation that earlier ages had directed toward a Kingdom supposedly not of this world. Let’s start with another book. Christianity Today strengthens the church by richly communicating the breadth of the true, good, and beautiful gospel. Charles Péguy’s writing rethought the very terms available to describe experience, the visible and vanishing foundations of living. But more important still, it is a work of great moral and spiritual intelligence, and one that invites contemplation about things we can’t afford not to care about deeply. From the first, the nation was already set on its course toward consumer culture’s counterfeit beatific vision, its zealous devotion to the technological domination of creation, and its unconquerable faith in the redemptive power of possessions righteously obtained and vigilantly protected. The book tells not only of capitalism’s most buoyant apologists but also of its most caustic critics and dissidents—the anarchists, socialists, communists, distributists, and Christian recusants of every kind. Christian socialism began in the 1840s with the Anglican trio of Frederick Denison Maurice, John Ludlow, and Charles Kingsley. Charles Taylor’s book A Secular Age is a brilliant story of how the western world moved from a premodern age of enchantment to our current secular age. Here are the best pieces from our archives. Eugene McCarraher The False Gospel of Work Against the cant of diligence and virtue. It will enjoy a long posterity, I think, in both the academic world and the world of the general readership. Harvard University Press, $39.95, 816 pp. We talk with historian Eugene McCarraher about the myths and rituals of the market, the lost radicalism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the rise of neoliberalism. Capitalism, he argues, is full of sacrament, whether or not it is acknowledged. Design by. This, though, is only a small part of McCarraher’s narrative, which is too vast to distill into a summary in this space. That labor began under the shelter of new forms of association located at the very heart of culture. McCarraher’s heroes are not so much Marx and Engels as John Ruskin and William Morris and others of similar disposition. If socialists and Wall Street bankers can agree on anything, it is the extreme rationalism of capital. Commonweal's latest, delivered twice weekly. Like Adorno and Horkheimer, for example, McCarraher recognizes that the Marx who wrote the third volume of Das Kapital—with its elevation of unremitting labor over festal leisure, its fantasies of limitless manufacture and exploitation of the earth’s resources, and its insistence on a total central control of production—was at the end of the day the most monstrously ambitious corporatist in human history, one whose ideas, if realized, would have changed all of life and the whole of the world into one gigantic factory, human labor transformed into a machine of relentless and joyless production. ‘It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism’. A faithful Catholic and a fierce socialistin 2006, socialism is about as countercultural as you can get; even anarchism is more fashionableMcCarraher here sets his sights on "the hopeless and infernal world of the capitalist round-the-clock workhouse" and "the cant of diligence and virtue" which, he argues, keeps us from recognizing that "the Work Ethic's boss is Mammon.". I risk making McCarraher’s book sound more rhapsodic than practical, and that would be an injustice. On every page, there are poignant clarifications and illuminations and aperçus—the account of the Lockean elevation of monetary value over use-value, say, or observations of the legal personhood progressively ceded to joint-stock and limited-liability corporations, or bitter commentary on the rise of management theory and advertising strategies, and so forth. Hence American Puritanism’s ghastly combination of the unappeasable pursuit of ever-greater profit with a private ethos not of holy poverty, but of pious drabness. But I may as well begin with a complaint, if only so as to appear evenhanded. The book tells not only of capitalism’s most buoyant apologists but also of its most caustic critics and dissidents—the anarchists, socialists, communists, distributists, and Christian recusants of every kind. AbeBooks.com: The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity (9780674984615) by McCarraher, Eugene and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity - Eugene McCarraher - Carti In Engleza It all began, of course, as a Christian heresy. In McCarraher’s telling, capitalism as it has taken shape over the past few centuries is not the product of any kind of epochal “disenchantment” of the world (the Reformation, the scientific revolution, what have you). Such a culture would treat the good things of creation as sacramental mediations and signs of the divine mystery upholding all things. Eugene McCarraher challenges the conventional view of capitalism as a force for disenchantment. It is exhaustive, precise, and rich. And it is sustained, like any creed, by doctrines and miracles, mysteries and revelations, devotions and credulities, promises of beatitude and threats of dereliction. 74 likes. Here’s where I talk about resources I’ve found helpful on the topic of Christian socialism. Each issue contains up-to-date, insightful information about today's culture, plus analysis of books important to the evangelical thinker. To his tired, hungry, sweated countrymen, Carlyle delivered a sermon on that "unpreached, inarticulate, but ineradicable and foreverenduring ... * Comments may be edited for tone and clarity. His first book (which belongs on the same shelf as the work of Christopher Shannon, profiled in our previous issue) was Christian Critics: Religion and the Impasse in Modern American Social Thought, published by Cornell University Press in 2000. Instead, it is another kind of religion, one whose chief tenets may be more irrational than almost any of the creeds it replaced at the various centers of global culture. Still, the hunger for the sacred always persists, even as one way of life grows old, suppressed forces reassert themselves, and new ideas arise to fill in the spaces vacated by discarded certitudes. Eugene McCarraher challenges this conventional view. Harvard University Press. In this doorstop of a book (almost 800 pages) Eugene McCarraher has several suggestions: it is industrial capitalism, it is the preference for financialization over the real economy of production, it is the “worship of money,” it is “Fordism,” and it is “technological fetishism,” among other things. The Benedict Option is the title of an earnest but intellectually confused book by a journalist whose ultimate recommendations are difficult to discern amid the turbulences of his passions and anxieties. Herbert McCabe, one of McCarraher’s most profound intellectual influences , puts it, “God’s creative act is an act of God’s poverty, for God gains nothing by it. What he desires is an ethics of personal wonder and of the cultural hunger for God’s presence in the depths of things. Socialism’s champions know how to take effective whacks at capitalism, but diagnosis is not yet the cure. If socialists and Wall Street bankers can agree on anything, it is the extreme rationalism of capital. And, while McCarraher holds no particular variety of Christian wholly responsible for these developments, he does not hesitate to assign particular blame where he thinks it just to do so. MacIntyre’s St. Benedict has nothing to do with disengagement, and everything to do with the preservation and redemption of communal memory and public reason. The book is ENORMOUS but it kind of has to be. Enormous as The Enchantments of Mammon is, it could well have been longer still. I come to praise Eugene McCarraher (rather lavishly, in fact), not to bury him. Far from displacing religions, as has been supposed, capitalism became one, with money as its deity. And the value of the book lies not just in that grand overarching story, but also in the countless incidental details that throng the plot. 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