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- catalog abstract "Marc Shell explores the interactions between linguistic and economic production as they inform discourse from Chretien de Troyes to Heidegger. Close readings of works such as the medieval grail legends, The Merchant of Venice, Goethe's Faust, and Poe's "The Gold Bug" reveal how discourse has responded to the dissociation of symbol from thing characteristic of money, and how the development of increasingly symbolic currencies has involved changes in the meaning of meaning. Pursuing his investigations into the modern era, Shell points out significant internalization of economic form in Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger. He demonstrates how literature and philosophy have been driven to account self-critically for a "money of the mind" that pervades all discourse, and concludes with a discomforting thesis about the cultural and political limits of literature and philosophy.".
- catalog contributor b5254628.
- catalog created "1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
- catalog description "From electrum to electricity -- The gold bug : introduction to "the industry of letters" in America -- The blank check : accounting for the Grail -- The wether and the ewe : verbal usury in the merchant of Venice -- Language and property : the economics of translation in Goethe's Faust -- Money of the mind : dialectic and monetary form in Kant and Hegel -- What is truth? : Lessing's numismatics and Heidegger's alchemy.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Marc Shell explores the interactions between linguistic and economic production as they inform discourse from Chretien de Troyes to Heidegger. Close readings of works such as the medieval grail legends, The Merchant of Venice, Goethe's Faust, and Poe's "The Gold Bug" reveal how discourse has responded to the dissociation of symbol from thing characteristic of money, and how the development of increasingly symbolic currencies has involved changes in the meaning of meaning. Pursuing his investigations into the modern era, Shell points out significant internalization of economic form in Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger. He demonstrates how literature and philosophy have been driven to account self-critically for a "money of the mind" that pervades all discourse, and concludes with a discomforting thesis about the cultural and political limits of literature and philosophy.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 245 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Money, language, and thought.".
- catalog identifier "0801846935 (pbk. : acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Money, language, and thought.".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "Money, language, and thought.".
- catalog subject "302.2 20".
- catalog subject "Economics in literature.".
- catalog subject "Language and languages Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Money Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "PN51 .S3643 1993".
- catalog tableOfContents "From electrum to electricity -- The gold bug : introduction to "the industry of letters" in America -- The blank check : accounting for the Grail -- The wether and the ewe : verbal usury in the merchant of Venice -- Language and property : the economics of translation in Goethe's Faust -- Money of the mind : dialectic and monetary form in Kant and Hegel -- What is truth? : Lessing's numismatics and Heidegger's alchemy.".
- catalog title "Money, language, and thought : literary and philosophical economies from the medieval to the modern era / Marc Shell.".
- catalog type "text".