Winstanley and the Diggers, 1649-1999 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Winstanley and the Diggers, 1649-1999 write by Andrew Bradstock. This book was released on 2013-12-19. Winstanley and the Diggers, 1649-1999 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of essays explore the the Diggers, a group of 17th century men who shared a vision of a society based on collective ownership of the land. The themes discussed include the continuing power of leader Winstanley's writings, ideas on civil liberty and the economic background.
The Enchantments of Mammon
The Enchantments of Mammon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Enchantments of Mammon write by Eugene McCarraher. This book was released on 2019-11-12. The Enchantments of Mammon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “An extraordinary work of intellectual history as well as a scholarly tour de force, a bracing polemic, and a work of Christian prophecy...McCarraher challenges more than 200 years of post-Enlightenment assumptions about the way we live and work.” —The Observer At least since Max Weber, capitalism has been understood as part of the “disenchantment” of the world, stripping material objects and social relations of their mystery and magic. In this magisterial work, Eugene McCarraher challenges this conventional view. Capitalism, he argues, is full of sacrament, whether one is prepared to acknowledge it or not. First flowering in the fields and factories of England and brought to America by Puritans and evangelicals, whose doctrine made ample room for industry and profit, capitalism has become so thoroughly enmeshed in the fabric of our society that our faith in “the market” has become sacrosanct. Informed by cultural history and theology as well as management theory, The Enchantments of Mammon looks to nineteenth-century Romantics, whose vision of labor combined reason, creativity, and mutual aid, for salvation. In this impassioned challenge to some of our most firmly held assumptions, McCarraher argues that capitalism has hijacked our intrinsic longing for divinity—and urges us to break its hold on our souls. “A majestic achievement...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.” —Commonweal “More brilliant, more capacious, and more entertaining, page by page, than his most ardent fans dared hope. The magnitude of his accomplishment—an account of American capitalism as a religion...will stun even skeptical readers.” —Christian Century
Diggers, Levellers, and Agrarian Capitalism
Diggers, Levellers, and Agrarian Capitalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Diggers, Levellers, and Agrarian Capitalism write by Geoff Kennedy. This book was released on 2008. Diggers, Levellers, and Agrarian Capitalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book situates the development of radical English political thought within the context of the specific nature of agrarian capitalism and the struggles that ensued around the nature of the state during the revolutionary decade of the 1640s. In the context of the emerging conceptions of the state and property - with attendant notions of accumulation, labor, and the common good - groups such as Levellers and Diggers developed distinctive forms of radical political thought not because they were progressive, forward thinkers, but because they were the most significant challengers of the newly constituted forms of political and economic power." "Drawing on recent reexaminations of the nature of agrarian capitalism and modernity in the early modern period, Geoff Kennedy argues that any interpretation of the political theory of this period must relate to the changing nature of social property relations and state power. The radical nature of early modern English political thought is therefore cast-in terms of its oppositional relationship to these novel forms of property and state power, rather than being conceived of as a formal break from discursive conventions."--BOOK JACKET.
Ehud's Dagger
Ehud's Dagger - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ehud's Dagger write by James Holstun. This book was released on 2020-05-05. Ehud's Dagger available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this meticulously researched, award-winning book, James Holstun details seventeenth-century England's first capitalist revolution, and its first anti-capitalist revolutions, in a stirring project of Marxist history from below.
Portraits of Integrity
Portraits of Integrity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Portraits of Integrity write by Charlotte Alston. This book was released on 2020-04-16. Portraits of Integrity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Portraits of Integrity depicts more than 20 historical, fictional and contemporary figures whose character or life raises questions about what integrity is and how it is perceived. Integrity might be culturally bound, but this diverse set of portraits demonstrates that it is not the special preserve of any one culture. Portraits of Socrates, Mencius, Rama and Job, alongside the aspirational 16th-century couple John and Dorothy Kaye, civil rights activist Ella Baker and an anonymous banker, highlight the persisting – sometimes conflicting – features of a life lived with integrity. An introduction identifies and discusses the key questions and themes raised by the case studies, encouraging the reader to determine for themselves the weight and significance of the recurring topics integrity brings up - truth, awkwardness, goodness, and charisma. For anyone looking to learn more about this elusive virtue, Portraits of Integrity is an essential collection. It uncovers the manifold aspects of integrity, illustrates the various possibilities for its expression in a life and asks whether living a life of integrity means living a life of isolation and hardship, or if it is possible to live with integrity without jeopardising all else.
