Civilizing Money by George Caffentzis
'Capitalist critique and proletarian reasoning fit for our time' - Peter Linebaugh Taking 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.'Caffentzis has been the philosopher of the anticapitalist movement from the American civil rights movement of the 1960sA historian of our own times, he carries the political wisdom of the twentieth century into the twenty-first. Here is capitalist critique and proletarian reasoning fit for our time'
-- Peter Linebaugh, author of 'The Magna Carta Manifesto' (University of California Press, 2008)
George 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. He is the author of Clipped Coins, Abused Words, and Civil Government and Civilizing Money.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780745341521 |
| ISBN 10 | 0745341527 |
| Title | Civilizing Money |
| Author | George Caffentzis |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pluto Press |
| Year published | 2021-07-20 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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