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Смътно като през огледало: бележки към „Капитализмът като религия“
Through a Glass Darkly: Remarks on "Capitalism as Religion"

Author(s): Vladimir Nikolaev Gradev
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: capitalism; religion; money; life;

Summary/Abstract: This article is a commentary on Walter Benjamin's fragment 74, written in 1921 and published posthumously under the title "Capitalism as Religion". The author clarifies Benjamin's thesis about the fundamental, essentially religious connection between money and life in modern capitalist society, and the transformation of life itself into a "living currency".

  • Issue Year: 46/2014
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 15-22
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Bulgarian