Civilizing money Hume, his monetary project, and the Scottish Enlightenment / George Caffentzis ; foreword by Peter Linebaugh.
| Author/creator | Caffentzis, Constantine George, 1945- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London : Pluto Press, 2021. |
| Description | xxxii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- An autobiographical preface -- Introduction: Who is a philosopher of money? -- PART I: HUME AND HIS CLASS'S PROBLEMATIC. 1. On the Scottish origins of civilization -- 2. Civilizing the Highlands: Hume, money and the Annexing Act -- 3. Hume's monetary education in Bristol -- PART II: HUME'S PHILOSOPHY AND HIS STRATEGY. 4. Why was Hume a metallist? -- 5. Did Hume read Berkeley's The Querist? Notions and conventions in their philosophies of money -- 6. Fiction or counterfeit? Specie or paper? -- 7. Wages and money: Pegasus' mirror -- Conclusion: Locke, Berkeley and Hume as philosophers of money -- Coda: A critique of Marx's Thesis 11 on Feuerbach -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Abstract | 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. |
| General note | Minimal Level Cataloging Plus. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-248) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022300524 |
| ISBN | 9780745341514 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0745341519 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780745341521 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 0745341527 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ePub ebook) |
| ISBN | (PDF ebook) |
| ISBN | (Kindle ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |