Monetisation and the Genesis of the Western Subject
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7095851 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Seaford (University of Exeter, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 78-102 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Historical Materialism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1465-4466 • E-ISSN: 1569-206X |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/156920612x632782 |
| OpenAlex | W2046017521 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 9 |
This paper searches early Greek texts (Homer, Herakleitos, Parmenides, Plato) for the genesis of the idea of the individual mind or soul as a unitary site of consciousness, and explores the relation of this genesis to the first monetisation in history. Money simultaneously promotes the isolated autonomy of the individual and provides a model (the unification of diversity by semi-abstract substance) that shapes both the unity of individual consciousness and the presocratic conception of the cosmos as constituted by a single semi-abstract substance. The argument confirms and develops the importance accorded by Alfred Sohn-Rethel to the ‘real abstraction’ of commodity-exchange in the origins of Greek philosophy
Argument (complex analysis · Autonomy · Commodity · Consciousness · Diversity (politics · Economics · Epistemology · Political science · Relation (database · Sociology · Soul · Subject (documents · Unification · Unitary state · Classical Antiquity Studies · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
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The Role of Money in Plato’s Republic, Book i
Value is Sense-Less
The Detour of Abstraction
The Head, the Hand, and Matter
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2022 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |