Money, Language, and Thought: Literary and Philosophic Economies from the Medieval to the Modern EraJohns Hopkins University Press, 01.09.1993 - 264 Seiten In Money, Language, and Thought, Marc Shell explores the interactions between linguistic and economic production as they inform discourse from Chretien de Troyes to Heidegger. Close readings of works such as the medieval grail legends, The Merchant of Venice, Goethe's Faust, and Poe's "The Gold Bug" reveal how discourse has responded to the dissociation of symbol from thing characteristic of money, and how the development of increasingly symbolic currencies has involved changes in the meaning of meaning. Pursuing his investigations into the modern era, Shell points out significant internalization of economic form in Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger. He demonstrates how literature and philosophy have been driven to account self-critically for a "money of the mind" that pervades all discourse, and concludes the book with a discomforting thesis about the cultural and political limits of literature and philosophy in the modern world. |
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... exchange for useful or honeyed words but also because they were producers of a dis- course whose internal exchanges of meaning were identical to the exchanges of commodities in monetary transactions . Plato feared the political tendency ...
... Exchange Contract The purifier of a wasteland , like Jesus in the fallen world and Oedipus in plague - ridden Thebes , must be willing and able to give all . This will and ability to give develop rarely , if ever , in ordinary human ...
... exchange of fire for all things and all things for fire , as there is of gold [ chrusos ] for wares and wares for gold . " " Through metaphorical exchanges of meaning , Heraclitus explores the transition from an economy of barter exchange ...
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The Bug for Gold | 8 |
From Nothing to Something | 14 |
Last Words | 22 |
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