3rd Edition

The Philosophy of Money

By Georg Simmel Copyright 2004
616 Pages
by Routledge

616 Pages
by Routledge

616 Pages
by Routledge

'I have lost interest ... in all that I have written prior to The Philosophy of Money . This one is really my book, the others appear to me colourless and seem as if they could have been written by anyone else.' - Georg Simmel to Heinrich Rickert (1904) In The Philosophy of Money , Simmel provides us with a remarkably wide-ranging discussion of the social, psychological and... Read more
Acknowledgements Notes on the Translation Preface to the Second Edition Introduction to the Translation Preface 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

Biography

Simmel, Georg

`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