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Description
The discourse of financialized capitalism tries to create a future predictable enough to manage risk for the wealthy, to shape the future into a profit-making site that constrains and privatizes the sense of what's possible. Here, people's hopes and meaning-making energies are policed through the burden of debt. In Trading Futures Filipe Maia offers a theological reflection on hope and the future, calling for escape routes from the debt economy. Drawing on Marxism, continental philosophy, and Latin American liberation theology, Maia provides a critical portrayal of financialization as a death-dealing mechanism that colonizes the future in its own image. Maia elaborates a Christian eschatology of liberation that offers a subversive mode of imagining future possibilities. He shows how the Christian vocabulary of hope can offer a way to critique the hegemony of financialized capitalism, propelling us in the direction of a just future that financial discourse cannot manage or control.
Product Details
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Publish Date | October 28, 2022 |
Pages | 224 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9781478018780 |
Dimensions | 9.0 X 6.0 X 0.5 inches | 0.7 pounds |
BISAC Categories: Spirituality & Religion, Business & Money
About the Author
Filipe Maia is Assistant Professor of Theology at Boston University.
Reviews
"In short scope and lucid prose, Felipe Maia's Trading Futures makes a provocative argument about such fundamental topics as justice, capitalism, theology, and time. . . . Trading Futures effectively shows that agents of financial capitalism and theologians of liberation can differ profoundly in their orientations toward the future."--Matthew Scherer "Perspectives On Politics" (9/1/2023 12:00:00 AM)
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