From Fortuna to the Christian God: Gambling and the Calvinist Ethic.

American Journal of Semiotics 10 (3-4):81-108 (1993)
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This article performs a Lacanian and philosophical re-reading of Weber’s thesis on the structural affinity between Calvinism and early capitalism. My discussion of the emergence of the capitalist subject is framed in the temporality of predestination.

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Sinkwan Cheng
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