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I have lost interest ... in all that I have written prior to The Philosophy ofMoney. This one is really my book the others appear to me colourless and seemas if they could have been written by anyone else. Georg Simmel to HeinrichRickert 1904We should all be grateful for this translation. It must have been extremelyhard work but it shows no trace of it. Indeed it positively sparkles. AlanRyan The GuardianIn The Philosophy of Money Simmel provides us with a remarkably widerangingdiscussion of the social psychological and philosophical aspects of the moneyeconomy full of brilliant insights into the forms that social relationshipstake. He analyzes the relationships of money to exchange the humanpersonality the position of women individual freedom and many other areas ofhuman existence. Later he provides us with an account of the consequences ofthe modern money economy and the division of labor which examines theprocesses of alienation and reification inwork urban life and elsewhere.Perhaps more than any of his other sociological works The Philosophy of Moneygives us an example of his comprehensive analysis of the interrelationshipsbetween the most diverse and seemingly connected social phenomena.This revised edition of the translation by Tom Bottomore and David Frisbyincludes a new Preface by David Frisby. «
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