![]() | Money Matters: Economics and the German Cultural Imagination, 1770-1850 Subjects: Economics -- German -- History -- To 1800; Economics -- Germany -- History -- 19th century; Economics -- Germany -- Sociological aspects -- History; Economics and literature -- Germany -- History; In Money Matters , Richard Gray investigates the discourses of aesthetics and philosophy alongside economic thought, arguing that their domains are not mutually exclusive. The transition in Germany from an agrarian or proto-industrial economy to a capitalist industrial economy, which was paralleled by a shift from the exchange of money in coin to the use of paper currencies, occurred simultaneously with an efflorescence of German-language literature and philosophy. Based on close readings of canonical literary and philosophical texts, Gray explores how this confluence led to a rich cross-fertilization between economic and literary thought in Germany during this period. Richard T. Gray is Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities at the University of Washington. He is the author of About Face: German Physiognomic Thought from Lavater to Auschwitz. |
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