Cantitate/Preț
Produs
Total produse
Vezi coșul
Money Matters de Richard T. Gray

Money Matters: Money Matters

Autor Richard T. Gray
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 noi 2008
In Money Matters: Economics and the German Cultural Imagination, 1770-1850, Richard Gray investigates the discourses of aesthetics and philosophy alongside economic thought, arguing that their domains are not mutually exclusive. The transition from an agrarian or proto-industrial economy to a capitalist industrial economy, which was paralleled by a shift from the exchange of specie to the use of paper currencies, occurred simultaneously with an efflorescence of German-language literature and philosophy. Based on close readings of canonical literary and philosophical texts, Gray explores how this confluence led to a rich cross-fertilization between economic and literary thought in Germany during this period.Money Matters documents the extent to which economics influenced literature and philosophy as well as the surprising degree to which literature and philosophy participated in the creation of modern economic paradigms. The cultural artifacts of the period demonstrate the existence of an “economic unconsciousness”: persistent notions of value and exchange that inflect the aesthetic and thematic dimensions of literary and philosophical texts. This book offers a thought-provoking and original analysis of literature and ideas in the critical transition period from Kant and Goethe, through the German Romantics, to Marx.Richard T. Gray is Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities at the University of Washington. He is the author of About Face: German Physiognomic Thought from Lavater to Auschwitz.
Citește tot Restrânge

Din seria Money Matters

  • 38% Money Matters: Croc Borrows Money
    Preț: 3871 lei
  • Money Matters: World's Leading Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Top Tips to Success (Vol. 1 - Edition 1)
    Preț: 9525 lei
  • 23% Money Matters – Economics and the German Cultural Imagination, 1770–1850
    Preț: 63250 lei
  • Money Matters: Everything You Should Have Learned in School, but Didn't
    Preț: 15915 lei

Preț: 21571 lei

Nou

Puncte Express: 324
Preț estimativ în valută:
3817€ • 4476$ • 3352£

Carte disponibilă

Livrare economică 24 ianuarie-07 februarie
Livrare express 13-17 ianuarie pentru 3827 lei

 Adaugă în coș

Wish list
Gift list
Am citit!
Adaugă în listă
Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780295988375
ISBN-10: 0295988371
Pagini: 464
Ilustrații: 16 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 154 x 228 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: University of Washington Press
Seria Money Matters

Recenzii

"Money Matters is both a manifesto for what Gray terms the 'New Economic Criticism' and a model of how it should be done. He argues against the notion that culture and economics have nothing to do with one another, insisting instead that German aesthetic theory and artistic practice are deeply implicated in a parallel discourse about the meaning of money at a time of sweeping political, cultural, and economic change. Money Matters is a landmark study that belongs to the very best work in German studies today.” Todd Kontje, author of German Orientalisms“Who would have thought that books devoted to German literature and cultural history of past centuries could be so timely and strike so deep? Dealing with a geographically and historically remote subject matter--the economic imagination in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature--Money Matters hit the market amidst the deep global recession of 2008. Suddenly, everything was a matter of money: we always had known that money mattered, but now we felt it. Yet most people understood little about the elusive, virtual nature that had come to define money in recent decades. With perhaps unintended, but nevertheless anticipatory foresight, Richard Gray's book enlightens us about the origins of money's problematic career and about the ways in which monetary matters have preoccupied fiction, the literary imagination, and--by implication--the narrative and dramatic fables of the modern Self.” - Birgit Tautz (Bowdoin College), H-German


"Money Matters is both a manifesto for what Gray terms the 'New Economic Criticism' and a model of how it should be done. He argues against the notion that culture and economics have nothing to do with one another, insisting instead that German aesthetic theory and artistic practice are deeply implicated in a parallel discourse about the meaning of money at a time of sweeping political, cultural, and economic change. Money Matters is a landmark study that belongs to the very best work in German studies today." Todd Kontje, author of German Orientalisms "Who would have thought that books devoted to German literature and cultural history of past centuries could be so timely and strike so deep? Dealing with a geographically and historically remote subject matter--the economic imagination in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature--Money Matters hit the market amidst the deep global recession of 2008. Suddenly, everything was a matter of money: we always had known that money mattered, but now we felt it. Yet most people understood little about the elusive, virtual nature that had come to define money in recent decades. With perhaps unintended, but nevertheless anticipatory foresight, Richard Gray's book enlightens us about the origins of money's problematic career and about the ways in which monetary matters have preoccupied fiction, the literary imagination, and--by implication--the narrative and dramatic fables of the modern Self." - Birgit Tautz (Bowdoin College), H-German

Notă biografică

Richard T. Gray is Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities at the University of Washington. He is the author of "About Face: German Physiognomic Thought from Lavater to Auschwitz."

Descriere

A provocative and original analysis of the impact of literature on the values and ideas of economics (and vice versa) in Germany 1770-1850.