Capitalism and Religion: The Price of Piety
[Goodchild's] strongest book to date...this is a book which many people should read and engage with, it has the potential to be a 'defining' book of this first decade of the new century.–Professor Keith Ansell Pearson, University of WarwickPhilip Goodchild's important new volume examines the cost of the pieties of the west -- the devastating pieties of religion, philosophy, science, and the free market economy that cost the earth and are paid for in blood. It is a learned and provocative work, giving a jolt to current complacencies and developing the imaginative resources for a piety worth the price. Read it!.–Professor Grace Jantzen, Research Professor of Religion, Culture and Gender, University of ManchesterThere are times when our thinking is in need of a shock to awaken it from its un-critical slumbers.  Philip Goodchild's text provides such a shock. Centred around the tasks of a critical piety he takes the reader on a search for a new reason and a new ethics.  It is a brave, compelling and potent work, executed with a tremendous philosophical intelligence and a rare ethical sensibility.  It contains fresh insights into time and money, God and faith, reason and experience and, most impressive of all, it carries out a fundamental reevaluation of the philosophical tradition from Spinoza and Kant to Marx and Nietzsche and to Deleuze and Derrida.  This is a supremely important work that demands to be read by anyone with a commitment to critical thinking.  My book of the year and, I suspect, of several years to Some.–Keith Ansell Pearson, Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick