Balázs Szabó

Pseudo-Eschatology as False Teleology: An Analytic Critique of Capitalism as Functional Religion

This paper advances a twofold thesis. First, capitalism satisfies the Durkheimian criteria of a functional religion by performing integrative, normative, and symbolic roles. Second, it does so in a distorted way, producing what we call a pseudo-eschatology and a false teleology. Analytically, our argument proceeds in t...