The Metaphysics of Trust

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Philip Goodchild's work has long been recognised as the epitome of a creative thinking that flouts all disciplinary ghettos-and The Metaphysics of Trust is no exception. Through a heady combination of the critical, the speculative and the poetic, Goodchild here completes his longstanding project of displacing Western metaphysics by way of a thoughtful attention to trust. -- Daniel Whistler, reader in modern european philosophy, Royal Holloway, University of London His groundbreaking work Theology of Money established Philip Goodchild among the foremost theoreticians of the religion of capitalism. In this analysis of the slippery and yet indispensable concept of trust, at once grounded in the classics of the biblical and Western traditions and close to life, Goodchild reimagines philosophy of religion as a critical discipline and a way of life. -- Adam Kotsko, Shimer Great Books School, North Central College In this monumental conclusion to his magisterial trilogy, Philip Goodchild passes from the critique of economic theology to the construction of a metaphysical economics, one that reveals modernity and its nihilistic economics of necessity, grounded in mistrust, as the chimera of that which is never necessary but always potent: trust itself. Thus Goodhcild offers a compelling pragmatic metaphysics in lieu of the false immediacies of economic rationality, reintroducing the unlimited, the immeasurable, and the interminable into the heart of thought and life. -- Joshua Ramey, Visiting Assistant Professor of Peace, Justice, and Human Rights, Haverford College, USA