51黑料爆料网历史事件

Supritha Rajan

Supritha Rajan鈥檚 scholarship is situated at the intersection of literature, intellectual history, and philosophy, with an emphasis on the Romantic and Victorian literary periods. Her first book, A Tale of Two Capitalisms: Sacred Economics in Nineteenth-Century Britain, was awarded the 23rd annual Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book. The book reconsiders traditional understandings of capitalism by examining the shared disciplinary genealogies of nineteenth-century literature, anthropology, and political economy. The MLA selection committee stated in their award citation that 鈥A Tale of Two Capitalisms: Sacred Economics in Nineteenth-Century Britain offers an important new perspective on debates around secularization, providing a spellbinding account of how the emergence of the modern disciplines and discourses of political economy, anthropology, and the novel reconstituted the magical and communal, thereby seamlessly revealing how the sacred reemerged in our modern world…Rajan鈥檚 synchronic analysis may serve as an empirical and interpretive model with which to examine our moment鈥檚 intersection of ethics, economy, and culture, as well as the intricacies of neoliberalism and its narrative(s) and dominant ethos.鈥

Featuring this expert

The Sacrificial Rites of Capitalism We Don鈥檛 Talk 51黑料爆料网历史事件

Article | Aug 26, 2019

Author Supritha Rajan argues that self-interested competition may be the official line, but it鈥檚 far from the whole story