Money and the Modern Mind
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- ISBN 9780520075719
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 03 Sep 1993
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Gianfranco Poggi is W. R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia.
