Beyond Governance and Prevention
On the Use(s) of Aristotle for Theorizing Money’s Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6350403 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jacob Swanson (0000-0001-9323-9632, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 605-630 |
| Publication date | 2024-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5917 • E-ISSN: 1552-7476 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00905917231204891 |
| OpenAlex | W4388499368 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 54 |
What are the contents, limits, and possibilities of Aristotle’s works for critical thinking about money? Recent scholarship has (re)turned to Aristotle as an authority for two key political approaches to money. The first aims to democratize the governance of monetary institutions in order to realize more just economic outcomes. The second seeks to prevent money, or its inherently deleterious excesses, from corrupting political actors and political life. Arguing that these two approaches are insightful, important, and incomplete, I reengage Aristotle’s account of money across the Nicomachean Ethics and the Politics to theorize money as a vital but underexplored means of political subject formation. I illuminate how the use of money produces collective and constitutive relations that emerge by way of people’s engagements and entanglements with the things they produce, acquire, desire, and exchange. Bringing this to light also makes visible, I argue, how Aristotle understands money as something capable of being used to both bring about social justice and to pervasively corrupt the foundations of shared democratic life. Taking stock of this dual capacity of money, I show how money’s relationship to subjectivity simultaneously makes money the site of a seemingly intractable problem for politics under capitalism and the means to revive it and reconnect it to democratic life
Capitalism · Corporate governance · Democracy · Economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Subject (documents · Subjectivity · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
Archaic Coinage As Evidence For The Use Of Money
Trade and Market in the Early Empires
Aristotle’s Economic Thought
Money and the Early Greek Mind
Making Money
Public Things
Coins, Bodies, Games, and Gold
The Social Meaning of Money
The Social Life of Things
The Political Character of Aristotelian Reciprocity
Aristotle on the Concept of Shared Life
The Emotional Logic of Capitalism
The Moral Power of Money
Making Money in Ancient Athens
The Invention of Coinage and the Monetization of Ancient Greece
Money in Classical Antiquity
The Use of Bodies
Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies
In the Ruins of Neoliberalism
Lending and Borrowing in Ancient Athens
The Human Condition
History of Political Thought
Money is politics
The currency of politics
The World of Prometheus
The Soul of the Greeks
Democracy's Slaves A Political History of Ancient Greece
The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy
Ancient Economy
A History of Trust in Ancient Greece
The Preeminence of Use
A Democracy of Distinction
Between Justice and Accumulation
Generosity and Inequality in Aristotle’s Ethics
Crypto-politics and counterfeit democracy
Undoing the Demos
Mutual Life, Limited
Undoing Neoliberalism
Keynes, legacies, and inquiry
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |