Credo Credit Crisis

Laurent Milesi is a Tenured Professor in English Literature and Critical Theory at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and former Chair of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University.Christopher Müller is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University. , Aidan Tynan is a Lecturer in the Cardiff School of English, Communication and Philosophy. He is the author of Deleuze’s Literary Clinic: Criticism and the Politics of Symptoms (2012)., ContributorsRichard Dienst, Associate Professor of English, Rutgers UniversityNicky Marsh, Professor of English, University of Southampton Arthur Bradley, Reader, Department of English and Creative Writing, Lancaster UniversityPhilip Goodchild, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Nottingham UniversitySimon Critchley, Hans Jonas Professor, The New SchoolHollis Phelps, Assistant Professor of Religion, University of Mount OliveBenjamin Noys, Reader in English, University of ChichesterJoshua Ramey, Assistant Professor, Grinnell College Indradeep Ghosh, Assistant Professor of Economics, Haverford College Josh Robinson, Lecturer, Cardiff School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff UniversityPeter Sedgwick, Reader, Cardiff School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff UniversityBernard Stiegler, Founder of Institut de recherche et d'innovation (IRI), Centre Georges-Pompidou, Visiting Professor Goldsmiths

• Introduction ,Christopher John Müller and Aidan Tynan / Part I: Modernity and the Trajectories of Sovereignty / 1. Towards a Concept of Seignorial Power, Joseph Vogl / 2. Hobbes, Sovereign Power and Money, Peter Sedgwick / 3. Accelerator despite Itself: Credo, Crisis, Katechon, Arthur Bradley / Part II: The Living Soul of Money / 4. The Bank of England in Ruins: Photography, Money and the Law of Equivalence, Christopher John Müller and Ian Wiblin / 5. Seeing is Believing: A visual history of the end of the gold standard, Nicky Marsh / 6. ‘Universal Shylockery: Money and Morality in The Merchant of Venice’ , Simon Critchley and Tom McCarthy / 7. ‘We are All Prostitutes’: Crisis and Libidinal Economy, Benjamin Noys / 8. The Materiality of Belief: On the Real Death of Mammon, Hollis Phelps / Part III: Speculation and Critique / 9. Impotent Signs: Money, Speculative Subjectivity, and the Ontological Proof, Aidan Tynan / 10. Speculation upon Speculation; or, a Contribution to the Critique of Philosophical Economy

Credo Credit Crisis provides a timely reminder that concepts such as debt, credit, interest, speculation and money are never just strictly economic phenomenon but abound in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. This brilliant volume shows how the dimension of religion is indispensable to understand as well to overcome our current economic crisis.