Politics of Divination Neolibecb

Offers an interpretation of neoliberal ideology as a political theology of chance that both justifies and dissembles risk-laden market processes as obscure divination tools used both to determine fate and fortune and yet to deny that such determination is taking place by any accountable authority.

List of contents

Preface / 1. Introduction: Within the Endgame / 2. We Have Always Been Giants / 3. Divining Neoliberal Order / 4. Random Chance Providential / 5. Risking Derivatives Politics / 6. Decolonizing Divination / Bibliography / Index

About the author

Matthew S. Haar Farris is Lecturer in Philosophy at California State University, Fresno.

Summary

Offers an interpretation of neoliberal ideology as a political theology of chance that both justifies and dissembles risk-laden market processes as obscure divination tools used both to determine fate and fortune and yet to deny that such determination is taking place by any accountable authority.

Product details

• Authors: Joshua Ramey, Joshua Alan Ramey, Ramey Joshua
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2016
• EAN: 9781783485529
• ISBN: 978-1-78348-552-9
• Series: Reinventing Critical Theory; Reinventing Critical Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Economic systems and structures, Economic systems & structures, Political science and theory