Cultures of Currencies (eBook, ePUB)

Literature and the Symbolic Foundation of Money
Redaktion: Ramon Resina, Joan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book's premise is not only the commonly accepted cultural relativity of economic concepts, but also the observation that the current shift in the meaning of concepts like "market," "currency," "exchange" and "money" suggests that culture is undergoing a change with unpredictable economic and political consequences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000543209
• Artikelnr.: 63580754

Autorenporträt

Joan Ramon Resina is Professor in the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures and the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University, where he directs the Iberian Studies Program at the Europe Center.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Joan Ramon Resina 1 What Does Money Signify? The
"transvaluation of values" taking place in the relation between currency
and language. Jan Söffner 2 The Cultural Currency of Semiocapitalism. On
the General Law of Gift Exchange. Philipp Kleinmichel 3 Social
Reconfigurations of Debt-Ridden Societies. David Murillo 4 Money, Society
and Trust: Lessons from Crisis. Gabriela Badica 5 Rural Continuities in the
Urban Revolution. Ethics of Work, Labor and Pay in the West African
Savannah. Till Förster 6 The Bonfires of Money. Capitalism, Memory and
Iconoclasm. Germán Labrador Méndez 7 The Libidinal Investments of the
Social Field. Elsie Mitchie 8 Unpredictability as an Economic Value. Simona
krabec 9 "Cultural Economy" and "Cultural Economics": Epistemological and
Political Consequences of a Fatal Intertwinement. Giovanni Leghissa 10 "I
have sworn an oath that I will have my bond": Money, Law, and Prelegal
Liability in Shakespeare and Kleist. Christian Moser 11 The Alchemy of
Money. Money As a Standard of Value. Bruna Ingrao 12 The Troubles of
Production. Ezra Pound and Jean Baudrillard on the Symbols of Exchange.
Joan Ramon Resina