Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 09:51:13 -0800 (PST)
Subject: M-TH: VALUE THEORY, SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY, & CULTURE


Perhaps marxism-thaxis can be a vehicle for productive discussion
where marxism-and-sciences-and-crackpot-hasbeen-turds has failed.
The connection between philosophy and money is not the sole
prerogative of George Thomson or Alfred Sohn-Rethel.  I have read
not a one of the following works, but I wonder if anyone is in a
position to comment on them:

Agnew, Jean-Christophe.  WORLDS APART: THE MARKET AND THEATER IN
ANGLO-AMERICAN THOUGHT, 1550-1750

Michaels, Walter Benn.  THE GOLD STANDARD AND THE LOGIC OF
NATURALISM: AMERICAN LITERATURE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY

Shell, Marc.  MONEY, LANGUAGE, AND THOUGHT: LITERARY AND
PHILOSOPHICAL ECONOMIES FROM THE MEDIEVAL TO THE MODERN ERA

Simmel, George.  THE PHILOSOPHY OF MONEY.

The last is a well-known classic work, the others are fairly
recent.  I know that literature and theater are not exactly
philosophy, but it seems the same sort of analysis is at work.
I'm hoping that there are more than superficial and misleading
analogies here.  I still have bad memories leftover from Ferruccio
Rossi-Landi's fraudulent and incompetent drivel in LINGUISTICS AND
ECONOMICS and LANGUAGE AS LABOR AND AS TRADE.


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