Money, Language, and Thought

By M. Shell. 2023

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In Money, Language, and Thought, 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 the book with a discomforting thesis about the cultural and political limits of literature and philosophy in the modern world.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Repressed futures: financial derivatives' theological unconscious (2002, background): “Rotman carries his account of zero through the development of the algebraic variable, the vanishing point in perspectival art and imaginary money – money redeemable only for another copy of itself instead of gold or silver (see also Shell 1982).”
• Common cents: situating money in time and place (2005, background): “There is the not the space here to do justice to these comparisons but see, for example, Goux 1990a [1973], 1990b, 1994 [1984]; Hutter, 1993; Luhmann 1979; Marx 1974 [1867]; Polanyi 1958, 1966; Shell 1982.”