Clipped Coins, Abused Words, and Civil Government
John Locke's Philosophy of Money
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Pluto Press
Published:20th Jul '21
Should be back in stock very soon
This paperback is available in another edition too:
- Hardback£85.00(9780745342054)
This book situates John Locke’s philosophy of knowledge and his political theory within his engagement in British monetary debates of the 17th and 18th century.
Anchored in extensive archival research, George Caffentzis offers the most expansive reading of Locke’s economic thought to date, contextualizing it within the expansion of capitalist accumulation on a world scale and the universality of money as a medium of exchange.
Updated with a new introduction by Paul Rekret, a new foreword by Harry Cleaver and new material by the author, Clipped Coins, Abused Words, and Civil Government continues to make a significant intervention in contemporary debates around the history of capitalism, colonialism and philosophy.
'Caffentzis is a practical philosopher and a pure teacher. His reasoning even at its most abstract always tends to the political. The street is his classroom. This is truly vulgar Marxism, that is, it is a critique by, with, and for the vulgus, or common people (you and I)'
-- Peter Linebaugh, author of 'The Magna Carta Manifesto' (University of California Press, 2ISBN: 9780745342078
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 245g
224 pages