Money matters : economics and the German cultural imagination, 1770-1850 /

"In Money Matters: Economics and the German Cultural Imagination, 1770-1850, Richard Gray investigates the discourses of aesthetics and philosophy alongside economic thought, arguing that their domains are not mutually exclusive. The transition from an agrarian or proto-industrial economy to a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gray, Richard T.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2008.
Series:Literary conjugations.
Subjects:
BMBF-Statusseminar
To 1899
Economics > Germany > History > To 1800.
Economics > Germany > History > 19th century.
Economics > Germany > Sociological aspects > History.
Economics and literature > Germany > History.
Économie politique > Allemagne > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1800.
Économie politique > Allemagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Économie politique et littérature > Allemagne > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Reference.
PHILOSOPHY > Political.
Economics.
Economics and literature.
Economics > Sociological aspects.
Wirtschaftsphilosophie
Germany.
Deutschland
Deutschland.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Buying into signs: money and semiosis in eighteenth-century German language theory
  • Hypersign, hypermoney, hypermarket: Adam Müller's theory of money and romantic semiotics
  • Economic romanticism: monetary nationalism in Johann Gottlieb Fitche and Adam Müller
  • Economics and the imagination: cultural values and the debate over physiocracy in Germany, 1770-1789
  • Counting on God: economic providentialism in Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling's Lebensgeschichte
  • Deep pockets: the economics and poetics of excess in Adelbert von Chamisso's Peter Schlemihl
  • Red herrings and blue smocks: commercialism, ecological destruction, and anti-sematism in Annette von Droste-Hülshoff's Die Judenbuche
  • The (mis)fortune of commerce: economic transformation in Adalbert Stifter's Bergkristall
  • Conclusion: Limitless faith in the limitless: money, modernity, and the economics/aesthetics of mediation in Goethe's Faust II.

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