Money, language, and thought
literary and philosophical economies from the medieval to the modern era
by Marc Shell
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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 with a discomforting thesis about the cultural and political limits of literature and philosophy.
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Money, Language, and Thought: Literary and Philosophic Economies from the Medieval to the Modern Era
2023, University of California Press
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Money, language, and thought: literary and philosophic economies from the medieval to the modern era
1993, Johns Hopkins University Press
in English
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0801846935 9780801846939
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Money, language, and thought: literary and philosophical economies from the medieval to the modern era
1993, Johns Hopkins University Press
in English
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Money, language, and thought: literary and philosophical economies from the medieval to the modern era
1982, University of California Press
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Portions previously published in various periodicals.
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