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Table of Contents; Introduction. On the Cultural Life of Money; I Philosophies of Money; Money is Time: Thoughts on Credit and Crisis; Metaphors We Pay For, or: Metaphors of the 'Financial Crisisâ' Shaping the Cultural Life of Money; Money: From Midas to Madoff; II The Arts and Finance; Death and Diamonds: Finance and Art; Art and its Potentialities: From the Virtual to Speculation; The Magic Triangle Considerations on Money, Art and S***; III Literature and Money Matters; Phantom Counterfeits: Credit and Betrayal in a (Post)-Modern Polity.

From Miser to Capitalist: An Economic Reading of Aluísio Azevedoâ's O CortiçNot So Far Apart: Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks and Martin Amis's Money; ""Outside, the yellow lions are grinningâ"". Drugs, Crime and Ethnic Cleansing in Juli Zeh's Eagles and Angels; 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; Cognitive Science and How We Think about Money; Second Life: The Emergence of a New Moneyscape; Coda: The Art of Giving; Money and Philanthropy: The Idea of Money; Contributors; Index.

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 constantly been challenged. This collection analyzes the process whereby a material icon invested with the symbolical power to rule social exchange becomes an explanatory narrative determining the way societies produce meaning.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

English.

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