Money and Thoughtlessness

A Genealogy and Defense of the Traditional Suspicions of Money and Merchants

AvJustin Pack

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

In this book, Justin Pack proposes a genealogy of the traditional suspicion of money and merchants. This genealogy is framed both by how money itself has changed and how different traditions responded to money.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-01-02
Mått:148 x 210 x 19 mm
Vikt:438 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:238
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031222603

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Justin Pack is a Lecturer in Philosophy at California State University, Stanislaus, USA.

Innehållsförteckning

1 Introduction.- 2 Money, Myths, and Thoughtlessness.- 3 The Neolithic Revolution: From Social Currencies to Debt.- 4 The Axial Age.- 5 Animist Ontologies, Abstraction, and Slavery.- 6 Mastering Money: Usury, Governance and Science in Medieval Europe.- 7 The Modern Attacks on the Traditional Suspicions of Money and Merchants.- 8 Against Homo Economicus: Mauss and Gift Cultures.- 9 The Hermeneutics of Suspicion and Contemporary Cynicism.- 10 Money and Thoughtlessness: Abstraction, Quantification, Adiaphorization.- 11 Conclusions.