The cultural life of money / edited by Isabel Capeloa Gil and Helena Gonçalves da Silva.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gil, Isabel Capeloa, editor.

Silva, M. Helena Gonçalves da, editor.

Series:

Culture & conflict ; Bd. 6.

Culture & conflict

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Money--Social aspects.

Money.

Culture--Economic aspects.

Culture.

Economics--Sociological aspects.

Economics.

Physical Description:

vi, 227 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter, [2015]

Contents:

Philosophies of money. Money is time : thoughts on credit and crisis

Metaphors we pay for, or : metaphors of the 'financial crisis' shapign the cultural life of money

Money : from Midas to Madoff

The arts and finance. Death and diamonds : finance and art

Art and its potentialities : from the virtual to speculation

The magic triangle

Literature and money matters. Phantom counterfeits : credit and betrayal in a (post)-modern polity

From miser to capitalist : an economic readig of Aluisio Azevedo's O Cortiço

Not so far apart : Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks and Martin Amis's Money

"Outside, the yellow lions are grinning" : drugs, crime and ethnic cleansing in Juli Zeh's Eagles and Angels

Cognitive moneyscapes. Meanings of money in literature : D.J. Taylor's novel Kept as a test case for exploring cognitive functions of liteature

Cognitive science and how we think about money

Second life : the emergence of a new moneyscape

The art of giving. Money and philanthropy : the idea of money.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110425697

3110425696

OCLC:

910596171