The significance of religious imagery in <i>The Philosophy of Money</i>

Silver, Daniel; O'Neill, Kristie

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“…In such contexts, as an ultimate concern, love needs to be referred to a transcendent symbolic matrix from which it takes its meaning in order to be pursued with appropriate practices. From a Simmelian point of view, which I share, social life has a transcendent character ("the transcendent character of life") that permeates even the use of money, given the fact that, in Western culture, mundane monetary interactions and exchanges are related to key religious forms of experience, like faith, unity, and individuality (Silver and O'Neill 2014).…”

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The dream of transcending the human through the digital matrix: A relational critique

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2019

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The advent of the digital era brings with it the dream of 'transcending the human' through the most sophisticated AI / robot technologies. The Author argues that the concept and practices of 'transcendence' are deeply ambiguous, since on the one hand they simply aim to overcome the weaknesses, limits and fragility of the human, while on the other hand they modify the human by selecting its specific qualities and its causal properties in a way to generate beings ' other than human. ' Post / trans-humanist ideologies supporting a radical transformative change, instead of strengthening the human, lead to its dehumanization because they imply the denial of the characteristics that are uniquely human and / or those that constitute human nature. To understand when new digital technologies enhance the human (keeping it within its natural boundaries) or distort it, it is necessary to analyze and evaluate social processes on the basis of a relational vision that shows us which human relationships emerge from the use of technologies.

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Section: The Distinction Human/non-human As a Transcendental Relationmentioning

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The dream of transcending the human through the digital matrix: A relational critique

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2019

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“…3 Jaeggi (2014) also notes clear parallels with pragmatism, which are worth pursuing further, some of which are explored in Schwalbe (1992). 4 I apply general Simmelian theoretical principles to more Marxian concepts, generally bracketing Simmel's specific application of his concepts to money (for this, see Silver & O'Neill, 2014). 5 Marx's notion of species being is clearly the most enigmatic and controversial.…”

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“…I apply general Simmelian theoretical principles to more Marxian concepts, generally bracketing Simmel's specific application of his concepts to money (for this, see Silver & O'Neill, ).…”

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Alienation in a four factor world

Silver

2018

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This paper aims to reconstruct the concept of alienation as a live topic for active social theorizing. Joining Marxian and Simmelian ideas, it provides a multi‐dimensional, formal, and synthetic theory of alienation. The paper develops a set of theoretical tools for articulating formal elements of action that make alienation possible, without giving conceptual priority to alienation in the sphere of production, or within that sphere to the alienation of labor. These tools make it possible to derive classical notions of alienation as specific, contingent combinations of multiple elements, theorizing them as concrete socio‐historical configurations of a broader universe of possibilities. They also organize systematic reflection on various forms and relations of alienation; not only those between for instance labor and capital, but also among all four factors of production: land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship. The paper accordingly develops an original, multi‐dimensional theorization of alienation for a complex, pluralistic world.

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“…3 Jaeggi (2014) also notes clear parallels with pragmatism, which are worth pursuing further, some of which are explored in Schwalbe (1992). 4 I apply general Simmelian theoretical principles to more Marxian concepts, generally bracketing Simmel's specific application of his concepts to money (for this, see Silver and O'Neill 2014). 5 Marx's notion of species being is clearly the most enigmatic and controversial.…”

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confidence: 99%

Alienation in a Four Factor World

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2018

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This paper aims to reconstruct the concept of alienation as a live topic for active social theorizing. Joining Marxian and Simmelian ideas, it provides a multi-dimensional, formal, and synthetic theory of alienation. The paper develops a set of theoretical tools for articulating formal elements of action that make alienation possible, without giving conceptual priority to alienation in the sphere of production, or within that sphere to the alienation of labor. These tools make it possible to derive classical notions of alienation as specific, contingent combinations of multiple elements, theorizing them as concrete socio-historical configurations of a broader universe of possibilities. They also organize systematic reflection on various forms and relations of alienation; not only those between for instance labor and capital, but also among all four factors of production: land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship. The paper accordingly develops an original, multi-dimensional theorization of alienation for a complex, pluralistic world.This paper aims to reconstruct the concept of alienation as a live topic for active social theorizing. 1 It seeks to recombine and expand elements of classical alienation theory to produce a more multi-dimensional, formal, and comprehensive theory of alienation, geared toward the pluralistic contemporary social world. While classical Marxian alienation theory provides important resources for this endeavor, it is also limited in crucial respects. Most notably its essentialism and reliance on the logic of dichotomies restrict its adaptability to the present. To develop a new conceptualization, this paper brings certain Simmelian sensibilities to bear on the Marxian formulation, such as pluralism and perspectivism, while drawing from Jaeggi's (2014) path-breaking philosophical work.Alienation is a crucial term in the social theoretical lexicon that has done important work and can continue to do so, if it can be refashioned into a multi-dimensional tool for understanding and analyzing our pluralistic contemporary scene. Though in recent decades alienation theory has been relatively marginalized among social theorists, worries about

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The significance of religious imagery in The Philosophy of Money

Cited by 9 publications

References 26 publications

The dream of transcending the human through the digital matrix: A relational critique

The dream of transcending the human through the digital matrix: A relational critique

Alienation in a four factor world

Alienation in a Four Factor World

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