Money, Language, and Thought

Literary and Philosophic Economies from the Medieval to the Modern Era

By: Marc Shell

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Paperback | 14 November 1993

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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.

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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: From Electrum to Electricity	p. 1
The Gold Bug: Introduction to "the Industry of Letters" in America	p. 5
Monetary and Aesthetic Theory	p. 5
The Bug for Gold	p. 8
The Humbug: Entomological Specimen, Species of Madness, and Specie	p. 10
From Nothing to Something	p. 14
The Goolah Bug: Linguistic Goolah and Monetary Goole	p. 18
Last Words	p. 22
The Blank Check: Accounting for the Grail	p. 24
Dearth and Plenitude	p. 27
Promise and Delivery	p. 29
An Exchange Contract	p. 32
Ideal and Real Estate	p. 34
Checking Out the Eucharist	p. 39
The Wether and the Ewe: Verbal Usury in The Merchant of Venice	p. 47
Use, Ewes, and Iewes	p. 48
From Courtship to Court	p. 55
My Purse, My Person	p. 60
Cancellations	p. 69
Redemption?	p. 76
Language and Property: The Economics of Translation in Goethe's Faust	p. 84
Translation	p. 84
Wealth and Poetry	p. 91
Paper Money and Language	p. 99
The Evocation of Helen	p. 111
The Law of the Fist (Faustrecht)	p. 117
The Dead Pledge (Faustpfand)	p. 121
The Dialectical Plot	p. 126
Money of the Mind: Dialectic and Monetary Form in Kant and Hegel	p. 131
Suppression and Adequation in Kant	p. 133
Against Formalism	p. 137
Sublation and the Modus Tollens	p. 139
Checkers and Cheeks	p. 142
The Difference	p. 147
Putting Hegel Down	p. 150
"What is Truth?": Lessing's Numismatics and Heidegger's Alchemy	p. 156
Nathan the Wise	p. 157
On the Essence of Truth	p. 162
On the Epigram	p. 170
Conclusion	p. 179
App. I: Beyond Chrysography	p. 191
App. II: Likeness and Likelihood	p. 194
App. III: The Money Complex of Psychoanalysis	p. 196
Index	p. 227
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