Résumé : This volume scrutinizes the functionality of a capitalist market society, which is usually praised for the efficiency and dynamism, rather than for its morality. It addresses the dualism behind capitalism's encouragement of greed, which is usually considered to be a mor…
Dans cet ouvrage, classique de la sociologie, Simmel analyse l'ambivalence de la modernité. 'S'il doit y avoir une philosophie de l'argent, elle sera en deçà et au-delà d'une science économique de celui-ci ... La genèse de l'argent n'est point ici en cause, elle appartient à l'h…
Money is an evil that does good, and a good that does evil. It inspires hymns to the prosperity it enables, manifestos about the poor it leaves behind, and diatribes for its corrosion of morality. In The Wisdom of Money, one of the world's great essayists guides us through the r…