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Money and the Modern Mind: Georg Simmel's Philosophy of Money

By Gianfranco Poggi

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9780520911673
DOI
10.1525/9780520911673
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13278681 bytes)
Edition
Reprint 2019
Pages
244\241
Time added
2023-08-15 05:40:35

Description

A major representative of the German sociological tradition, Georg Simmel (1858-1918) has influenced social thinkers ranging from the Chicago School to Walter Benjamin. His magnum opus, The Philosophy of Money, published in 1900, is nevertheless a difficult book that has daunted many would-be readers. Gianfranco Poggi makes this important work accessible to a broader range of scholars and students, offering a compact and systematically organized presentation of its main arguments.Simmel's insights about money are as valid today as they were a hundred years ago. Poggi provides a sort of reader's manual to Simmel's work, deepening the reader's understanding of money while at the same time offering a new appreciation of the originality of Simmel's social theory.

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