Critical Enthusiasm contributes to new directions of scholarship in literary and legal history, secularization studies, and economic criticism. As a result, we must contextualize the histories of religion and secularization in terms of the economic landscape of early modernity. Through this unusual pairing, Critical Enthusiasm shows that debates around religious radicalism are bound to the advent of capitalism at its very root: as legal precedent, as financial rhetoric, and as aesthetic form. In OUP Catalogue from Oxford University PressĬritical Enthusiasm concerns itself with two major, interrelated phenomena of the long eighteenth century: the onset of capital accumulation and the loosening of religious discourse to describe intellectual, aesthetic, and ethical experiences. Jordana Rosenberg: University of Massachusetts at Amherst Critical Enthusiasm: Capital Accumulation and the Transformation of Religious Passion
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