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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
1993
ISBN
0520075714, 9780520075719, 9780520911673
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12364502 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
244\240
Time added
2022-01-04 18:14:32

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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