Civilizing Money: Hume, his Monetary Project, and the Scottish Enlightenment

George Caffentzis

Civilizing Money: Hume, his Monetary Project, and the Scottish Enlightenment
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Pluto Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
20 July 2021
Pages
288
ISBN
9780745341514

Civilizing Money: Hume, his Monetary Project, and the Scottish Enlightenment

George Caffentzis

‘Capitalist critique and proletarian reasoning fit for our time’ - Peter Linebaugh

Taking the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume as its subject, this book breaks new ground in focusing its lens on a little-studied aspect of Hume’s thinking: his understanding of money.

George Caffentzis makes both an intervention in the field of monetary philosophy and into Marxian conceptions of the relation between philosophy and capitalist development. He vividly charts the ways in which Hume’s philosophy directly informed the project of ‘civilizing’ the people of the Scottish Highlands and pacifying the English proletariat in response to the revolts of both groups at the heart of the empire.

Built on careful historical and philosophical detective work, Civilizing Money offers a stimulating and radical political reading of the ways in which Hume’s fundamental philosophical claims performed concrete political functions.

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