City intelligible : a philosophical and historical anthropology of global commoditisation before industrialisation / by Frank Perlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perlin, Frank, author.

Series:

Studies in global social history ; volume 38.

Studies in global social history, 1874-6705 ; volume 38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Money--History.

Money.

History.

Economic anthropology.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

lvi, 630 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]

Summary:

"In City Intelligible Perlin marries a transcendental-critical philosophical approach with one historical and empirical in order to penetrate the culture of commodification dominating global societal development over many centuries prior to industrialisation. Commodification represents a dense and abundant global evidence for the essential translatability informing all cultural difference and enabling exchange of cultural goods transiting all settled society. Perlin investigates the two anthropologies - one universalist and the other particularist - in order to reach an eventual synthesis that reinterprets societal relationship both in detail and in general, leading to a derivation of the universal foundations of human reasoning and formation of culture both logically and empirically (historically), and that in founds a comprehension of human differentiation"-- Provided by publisher.

In 'City Intelligible' Perlin marries a transcendental-critical philosophical approach with one historical and empirical in order to penetrate the culture of commodification dominating global societal development over many centuries prior to industrialisation. Commodification represents a dense and abundant global evidence for the essential translatability informing all cultural difference and enabling exchange of cultural goods transiting all settled society.00Perlin investigates the two anthropologies - one universalist and the other particularist - in order to reach an eventual synthesis that reinterprets societal relationship both in detail and in general, leading to a derivation of the universal foundations of human reasoning and formation of culture both logically and empirically (historically), and that in founds a comprehension of human differentiation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Perlin, Frank, City intelligible

ISBN:

9789004414914

9004414916

OCLC:

1135938036

Publisher Number:

99984328604