The cultural life of money

The book discusses how culture simultaneously shapes and is shaped by the economy. Over the past few years, as the world has staggered from one financial crisis to another, the neat separation of economics and culture has been consistently challenged. To understand the current state of affairs, it h...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: Knowledge Unlatched funder (funder)
Otros Autores: Gil, Isabel Capeloa, editor (editor), Silva, M. Helena Gonçalves da, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter 2015.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Culture & conflict ; Volume 6.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front matter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction / Capeloa Gil, Isabel
  • I. Philosophies of Money
  • Money is Time: Thoughts on Credit and Crisis / Weber, Samuel
  • Metaphors We Pay For, or: Metaphors of the 'Financial Crisis' Shaping the Cultural Life of Money / Nünning, Ansgar
  • Money: From Midas to Madoff / Neves, João César das
  • II. The Arts and Finance
  • Death and Diamonds: Finance and Art / Goggin, Joyce
  • Art and its Potentialities: From the Virtual to Speculation / Seligmann-Silva, Márcio
  • The Magic Triangle / Opitz, Alfred
  • III. Literature and Money Matters
  • Phantom Counterfeits: Credit and Betrayal in a (Post)-Modern Polity / Medeiros, Paulo de
  • From Miser to Capitalist: An Economic Reading of Aluísio Azevedo's O Cortiço / Santos, Vivaldo Andrade dos
  • Not So Far Apart: Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks and Martin Amis's Money / Silva, Helena Gonçalves da / Seruya, Teresa
  • "Outside, the yellow lions are grinning" / Guarda, Filomena Viana
  • IV. Cognitive Moneyscapes
  • Meanings of Money in Literature: D. J. Taylor's Novel Kept (2006) as a Test Case for Exploring Cognitive Functions of Literature / Nünning, Vera
  • Cognitive Science and How We Think about Money / Abrantes, Ana Margarida
  • Second Life: The Emergence of a New Moneyscape / Ferreira, Cátia
  • Coda: The Art of Giving
  • Money and Philanthropy: The Idea of Money / Rui Vilar, Emílio
  • Contributors
  • Index