Georg Simmel’s Philosophy of Money: 3. Money in the Sequence of Purposes

To review: in the first two chapters, Simmel established money’s capacities to (a) make incommensurable systems of values commensurable, and (b) dissolve meaning through a process of universalizing abstraction. He reviews the Kantian analysis of the second chapter: What one might term the tragedy of human concept formation lies in the fact that the higher concept, […]Related posts:

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