College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

2: Chained to the Past

Second lecture of Professor Tanner's Gifford Lecture series. Tuesday 3 May 2016

Lecture abstract

This lecture will consider the way in which persons, as both workers and debtors, are encouraged to relate to past decisions that constrain present action within finance-dominated capitalism. The presumed inevitability of this way of relating to the past is undercut by appealing to Christian forms of self-repudiation in conversion and to the ruptured narratives that go along with them.

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