The Market Order as Metaphysical Loot: Theology and the Contested Legitimacy of Consumer Capitalism

摘要: The mechanism through which the ideology of market capitalism emerged has mostly been interpreted as part an incremental, inevitable, and thus legitimate ousting theological concepts from a public sphere that became organized around principles Enlightenment secular project. This article stresses illegitimate aspects this process, is expropriation re-appropriation devices ideas for what was merely alternative political-theological project, namely establishment priesthood individualized ‘common man’, allowed mobilization individual choice principle social organization. same process responsible underpinning often unjust illiberal order with vision world ordered benign kosmos spontaneously chaos.