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Civilizing Money: Hume, His Monetary Project, and the Scottish Enlightenment (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780745341521)
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xTaking the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume as its subject, this book breaks new ground in focusing its lens on a little-studied aspect of Hume's thinking: his understanding of money.
George Caffentzis makes both an intervention in the field of monetary philosophy and into Marxian conceptions of the relation between philosophy and capitalist development. He vividly charts the ways in which Hume's philosophy directly informed the project of 'civilizing' the people of the Scottish Highlands and pacifying the English proletariat in response to the revolts of both groups at the heart of the empire. Built on careful historical and philosophical detective work, Civilizing Money offers a stimulating and radical political reading of the ways in which Hume's fundamental philosophical claims performed concrete political functions.Author: George Caffentzis
ISBN-10: 0745341527
ISBN-13: 9780745341521
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Language: English
Published: 07/20/2021
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.80d
By George Caffentzis
xGeorge Caffentzis is a co-founder of the Midnight Notes Collective and coordinator of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa (CAFA). Caffentzis was a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine for over thirty years before retirement. His previous publications include In Letters of Blood and Fire: Work, Machines, and the Crisis of Capitalism (Common Notions, 2013).
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