Practices of life and the religious character of capitalism: an analysis through Weber, Benjamin, and Foucault

The purpose of this paper is an analysis of the recent return of the religion on the public scene of politics starting from the "cultural", even before "economic", transformation that is at the core of neoliberalism. The Author suggests that the "faith in the market" is the main device of global politics as new form of subjectivation. In this direction, it is essential the work of three authors - Weber, Benjamin and Foucault - in particular their critique of the capitalist economy beyond the strictly economic field: areas seemingly unrelated to the economy emerge, in this way, as essential to understand the "religious mechanisms" that govern today, in the predominance of neoliberalism.