File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_1998/heidegger.9812, message 226


Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 18:01:07 +0100
Subject: Re:  Dasein im Menschen (Geld)
From: artefact-AT-t-online.de (Michael Eldred)


Cologne 30 December 1998

andrew.glynn-AT-ca.pwcglobal.com schrieb:
> I'll have to get hold of Fraentski's habilitation - any pointers?  The
> early writings are more human-centred as I've found so far (although the
> translation I have may be poor).

Fraentzki's books are not available in translation. His habil. has the title 
_Der missverstandene Marx -- Seine metaphys.-ontolog. Grundstellung_  Neske 
Verlag, Pfullingen 1978.

> In what possible ways the "being" of money (and commodity-value) "meets"
> Dasein is one of the paths I've been travelling lately.  Mostly through an
> understanding (and experience) of mania and how that mood affects that
> meeting, and then the switch to a meeting where the mood of dysphoria
> becomes the in-between of Dasein and value-forms (in a negative sense).
> This is likely a side-track but an interesting one for me and bears on the
> answering you mention.

The moods in which money opens itself to Dasein are many. The ways it gives 
itself to understanding are also manifold. As universal equivalent, for example, 
it opens the door to the world of commodities. As store of value, it gives its 
possessor potential purchasing power to shape a future. As interest-bearing 
capital, it brings forth little offspring for its owner. As  investment capital, 
it allows its owner to participate in the general valorization of productive 
capital. Buying, saving, investing all have their characteristic moods and 
character masks (e.g. the spendthrift, the miser and hoarder, the prudent saver, 
the entrepreneur, the speculator, the shrewd business(wo)man...)

Happy New Year!
Michael
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