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Money, Language, and Thought: Literary and Philosophic Economies from the Medieval to the Modern Era - Couverture rigide

Shell, Marc

 
9780520043794: Money, Language, and Thought: Literary and Philosophic Economies from the Medieval to the Modern Era
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0520043790 ISBN 13 : 9780520043794
Editeur : University of California Press, 1982

Synopsis

Book by Shell Marc

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
1982
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520043790
ISBN 13 
9780520043794
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
240
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Personne responsable
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