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Charly Coleman is a professor specializing in European Enlightenment and the French Revolution, with a particular emphasis on the intersections of religion, philosophy, and political economy. His latest work, 'Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology of the Age Enlightenment,' published by Stanford University Press in 2021 and short-listed for the Kenshur Prize, uncovers a distinctly Catholic ethic in commodity culture. This contrasts with Max Weber’s famous 'Protestant ethic' by highlighting the pleasures of consumption and production over the rigors of delayed gratification. His award-winning book, 'Virtues Abandon: An Anti-Individualist History of the French Enlightenment,' published in 2014, explores the relationship between personhood and property. Coleman’s research spans topics such as selfhood, political economy, and economic theology and has been published in leading academic journals. Currently, he is working on several new book projects that investigate the fate of ecclesiastical property, paper currency, and civic religion during the French Revolution, as well as the political economic thought of Enlightenment philosophers.
Department of Anthropology (GSAS)