The Philosophy of Money

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The Philosophy of Money

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ISBN: 9780415610117
author: Georg Simmel
translator: Kaethe Mengelberg (1st draft) / Tom Bottomore / David Frisby
publishing house: Routledge
publication date: 2011 -5
series: Routledge Classics
binding: Paperback
price: USD 38.95
number of pages: 640

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Georg Simmel    translator: Kaethe Mengelberg (1st draft) / Tom Bottomore

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With a new foreword by Charles Lemert
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'Its greatness...lies in ceaseless and varied use of the money form to unearth and conceptually reveal incommensurabilities of all kinds, in social reality fully as much as in thought itself.' - Fredric Jameson
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In The Philosophy of Money, Georg Simmel puts money on the couch. He provides us with a classic analysis of the social, psychological and philosophical aspects of the money economy, full of brilliant insights into the forms that social relationships take. He analyzes the relationships of money to exchange, human personality, the position of women, and individual freedom. Simmel also offers us prophetic insights into the consequences of the modern money economy and the division of labour, in particular the processes of alienation and reification in work and urban life.
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An immense and profound piece of work it demands to be read today and for years to come as a stunning account of the meaning, use and culture of money.

contents

Ch. 1 Value and money 59
Ch. 2 The value of money as a substance 131
Ch. 3 Money in the sequence of purposes 204
Ch. 4 Individual freedom 283
Ch. 5 The money equivalent of personal values 355
Ch. 6 The style of life 429
Afterword : the constitution of the text 513

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