Money and the Modern Mind: Georg Simmel's Philosophy of Money

By Gianfranco Poggi

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520075714
• ISBN13: 9780520075719
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"