Description
Book SynopsisAn engaging and unique study of Enlightenment philosopher David Hume's understanding of money and his role in the rise of capitalism
Trade Review'Caffentzis has been the philosopher of the anticapitalist movement from the American civil rights movement of the 1960s. A historian of our own times, he carries the political wisdom of the twentieth century into the twenty-first. Here is capitalist critique and proletarian reasoning fit for our time'
-- Peter Linebaugh, author of 'The Magna Carta Manifesto' (University of California Press, 2008)
Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Foreword
An Autobiographical Preface
Introduction: Who is a Philosopher of Money?
PART I: HUME AND HIS CLASS'S PROBLEMATIC
1. On the Scottish Origins of Civilization
2. Civilizing the Highlands: Hume, Money and the Annexing Act
3. Hume’s Monetary Education in Bristol
PART II: HUME'S PHILOSOPHY AND HIS STRATEGY
4. Why was Hume a Metallist?
5. Did Hume read Berkeley’s The Querist? Notions and Conventions in their Philosophies of Money
6. Fiction or Counterfeit? Specie or Paper?
7. Wages and Money: Pegasus’ Mirror
Conclusion: Locke, Berkeley and Hume as Philosophers of Money
Coda: A Critique of Marx’s Thesis 11 on Feuerbach
Notes
Bibliography
Index
