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Trading Futures

A Theological Critique of Financialized Capitalism
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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

PublisherDuke University Press
Publish DateOctober 28, 2022
Pages224
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781478018780
Dimensions9.0 X 6.0 X 0.5 inches | 0.7 pounds

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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