Philosophy of Money

Zusatztext `We should all be grateful for this translation. It must have been extremely hard work! but it shows no trace of it. Indeed! it positively sparkles.' - Alan Ryan! The Guardian'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 Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Originally published: 2004. With new foreword. Zusammenfassung In The Philosophy of Money, Georg Simmel provides us with a now classic discussion of the social, psychological and philosophical aspects of the money economy, full of brilliant insights into the forms that social relationships take. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Foreword to The Routledge Classics Edition Preface to the Third Edition Introduction to the Translation Analytical Part 1. Value and Money 2. The Value of Money as Substance 3. Money in the Sequence of Purposes Synthetic Part 4. Individual Freedom 5. The Money Equivalent of Personal Values 6. the Style of Life Appendix: The Constitution of the Text

Product details

• Authors: Georg Simmel
• Assisted by: David Frisby (Editor), Frisby David (Editor), Charles Lemert (Foreword), Tom Bottomore (Translation)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.04.2011
• EAN: 9780415610117
• ISBN: 978-0-415-61011-7
• No. of pages: 596
• Series: Routledge Classics
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Sociology, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Money & Monetary Policy, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Monetary Economics