The Philosophy of Money
内容简介
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.
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作者简介
Georg Simmel (1858-1918) was born in Berlin, the youngest of seven children. He studied philosophy and history at the University of Berlin and was one of the first generation of great German sociologists that included Max Weber.
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目录
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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读书文摘
这一切都加深了社会本已存在的世俗化倾向。现代精神中神性一形而上的品质消退，以货币为象征的工商主义精神取而代之，它的精神结构因子正是物化、理性化和世俗的品性。从金钱的角度来看，世俗化在现代社会中的含义就在于，金钱不仅成为物质一经济世界的流通物和统辖者，它还成为精神世界的流通物，占据了精神世界的地盘。这一过程加深了现代社会世俗化的精神景观。
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