MONEY PROTOTYPE OF CULTURE&SOCIETY IN M. GERMANY

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1 Syllabus MONEY PROTOTYPE OF CULTURE&SOCIETY IN M. GERMANY Last update HU Credits: 2 Degree/Cycle: 2nd degree (Master) Responsible Department: Cultural Studies Academic year: 0 Semester: 1st Semester Teaching Languages: Hebrew Campus: Mt. Scopus Course/Module Coordinator: Sharon Gordon Coordinator sharon.gordon@mail.huji.ac.il Coordinator Office Hours: Tuesday, 13:30-14:30 Teaching Staff: Sharon Gordon page 1 / 6

2 Course/Module description: This seminar deals with the role of money in modern society and culture,the inner paradoxes, and the different approaches towards money. It deals with images of money in modern culture, from ideologies to symbolic representations in art and popular culture. Course/Module aims: This seminar introduce the students to the relations between money as economic institution to other aspects of culture: identities, world views, experiences etc. The students read various texts dealing with money from non-economic angles, but rather sociology, philosophy, literature, as well as current media and press. They will learn that "economy" is not separate from culture. The students practice writing book review. Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to: By the end of the seminar the students will have the ability to read texts dealing with money critically. They will be able to identify the world views, and the context by which texts were composed. They will also acquire the ability to write a book review. Attendance requirements(%): 80 Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Seminar - lectures and discussions Course/Module Content: ***Opening*** 1. Introduction - what is money and why is it important to deal with it? Money's functions. Time and space. Rationality and sentiments. 2. Two sides of the currency. Money's double nature: political and economic. ***The Political dimentions*** 3. Money and war. The wars at the 1th century and the Napoleonic wars. 4. Religion and Secularization. The question of secularization in the 19th century, Judaism and Christianiy, Money and God. 5. Money and Space. Collective identity, nation state, German unifications (1871, 1990), Globalization, EU. ***The Economic dimension*** 6. Money and Space. Credit, debt, growth. page 2 / 6

3 7. Inflation. Germany early 1920's - desolving sense of time. 8. Financial crises. The long depression ( ), the great depression ( ), the recent crisis (2008) ***Sentiments and senses*** 9. The Aesthetics of Money. Images of money, design of money. 10. The Psychology of money. (1) Eros and emotions - desire, envy, disgust. (2) The construction ot he individual, human relationships. 12. Jews, money and economic anti-semitism. 13. World withougt money? ideologies and utopia of money. ***conclusion*** 14. Moneny and capitalism - the great transformation Required Reading: Allen, Christopher S. "Ideas, Institutions and Organized Capitalism: The German Model of Political Economy Twenty Years after Unification," German Politics and Society, 6/30/2010, Vol. 28 Issue 2, pp Amos Morris-Reich, The Beautiful Jew is a Moneylender: Money and Individuality in Simmels Rehabilitation of the Jew, Theory, Culture & Society 20.4 (2003): Baker, W. E. (1987) What is money? A social-structural interpretation, in: M. Mizruchi and M. Schwartz (eds), Intercorporate Relations: The Structural Analysis of Business, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 109_/44.. Berghahn, Volker Rolf, Imperial Germany, : economy, society, culture, and politics, 1994 Blackbourn, David. The Long Nineteenth Century. A History of Germany Oxford, Braun, Hans-Joachim, The German economy in the twentieth century, 1990: Ferguson, Niall, Paper and Iron. Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation, , Introduction Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, The Closed Commercial State, Gilbert Emily and Eric Helleiner, (eds) Nation-States and Money: The Past, Present and Future of National Currencies, London: Routledge, 1999 Goux, Jean Joseph, Symbolic Economies: After Marx and Freud. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990 Graeber, David, Debt. The First 5000 Years, 2011 Gray, Richard T. "Buying into Signs: Money and Semiosis in Eighteenth-Century German Language Theory." The German Quarterly 69 1 (1996): Gray, Richard T. "Economic Romanticism: Monetary Nationalism in Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Adam Mller." Eighteenth-Century Studies 36 4 (2003): Gustav Freytag, Debit and Credit, (German-1855) Helleiner, Eric, The Making of National Money: Territorial Currencies in Historical Perspective, Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press Holtfrerich, Carl-Ludwig. "Relations between Monetary Authorities and Governmental Institutions. The Case of Germany from the 19th Century to the Present." Central Banks' Independence in Historical Perspective. Ed. Toniolo, Gianni. page 3 / 6

4 Vol Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, Horwitz, Steven, "Monetary Exchange as an Extra-Linguistic Social Communication Process." Review of Social Economy 50 (1992): James, Harold Monetary and Fiscal Unification in Nineteenth Century Germany, 1997 James, Harold. The Mark and the Kaiserreich. Cosmopolitan or National Currency? Discussion paper no : University of St. Gallen, Department of Economics, September Keynes, John Maynard, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1919 McGinley, C. L. (1993) Coining Nationality: Woman as Spectacle on 19th Century Currency, American Transcendental Quarterly 7(3): 247_/69. Mendes-Flohr, Paul R., Werner Sombarts `The Jews and Modern Capitalism`: An Analysis of its Ideological Premises, LBIYB 21 (1976): Mosse, George. The Crisis of German Ideology. New York, Mosse, Werner E., Judaism, Jews and Capitalism Weber, Sombart and Beyond, LBIYB 24 (1979): 3-15 Mosse, Werner Eugen, Jews in the German Economy, Oxford: Clarenden Press, Mosse, Werner Eugen, The German-Jewish Economic Elite : A socioeconomic profile, Oxford: Clarenden Press, Muller, Jerry Z., The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought. Anchor Books, 2002 Muller, Jerry Z., Capitalism and the Jews, Princeton University Press, Nakhimovsk, Isaac, The Closed Commercial State: Perpetual Peace and Commercial Society from Rousseau to Fichte: 65-73, Nelson, Benjamin, The Idea of Usury. From Tribal Brotherhood to Universal Otherhood, 1969 Penslar, Derek Jonathan, Shylock's children: economics and Jewish identity in modern Europe, University of California Press, 2001 Pierenkemper, T., and Richard Tilly, The German Economy during the Nineteenth Century, 2004 Polanyi, Karl, The Great Transformation, 1944 Rosenberg, Hans, Political and Social Consequences of the Great Depression of in Central Europe, The Economic History Review, Vol. 13, No. 1/2 (1943), pp Scrivener, Michael Henry, Radical Shelley: The Philosophical Anarchism and Utopian Thought of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, Shell, Marc. "Money and the Mind. The Economics of Translation in Goethe's Faust." MLN 95 (1980): Simmel, Georg Philosophy of Money Sombart, Werner, The quintessence of capitalism. A Study of the History and psychology of the modern business man, 1915 Sombart, Werner. The Jews and Modern Capitalism. New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 2004 Tilly, Richard, "Germany: " in Rondo Cameron, ed. Banking in the Early Stages of Industrialization: A Study in Comparative Economic History (Oxford page 4 / 6

5 University Press, 1967), pages Torp, Cornelius, The Great Transformation: German Economy and Society In The Oxford Handbook of Modern German History, edited by Helmut Walser Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011 Tribe, Keith. Governing Economy: The Reformation of German Economic Discourse Cambridge, 1988 White, Eugene Nelson. "The French Revolution and the Politics of Government Finance, " The Journal of Economic History 55 2 (1995): Widdig, Bernd. Culture and inflation in Weimar Germany, 2001Habermas, Jrgen, Yet Again: German Identity: A Unified Nation of Angry DM-Burghers?, New German Critique, 52 (1991): Wolfenstein, Eugene V., Mr. Moneybags meets the Rat Man: Marx and Freud on the meaning of money. Political Psychology, 14.2 (1993): אנדרסון, בנדיקט, קהילות מדומיינות. הגיגים על מקורות הלאומיות והתפשטותה, 1999 ברקאי, אברהם, היהדות, היהודים והתפתחות הקפיטליזם, בתוך: מנחם בן ששון (עורך), דת וכלכלה, ירושלים 1995, ע' ברקאי, אברהם, הכלכלה הנאצית. תיאוריה, אידיאולוגיה ומדיניות, תשמ"ו גלנר, ארנסט, לאומים ולאומיות, תל אביב: האוניברסיטה הפתוחה, 1994 (באנגלית במקור 1983) גתה, וולפגנג, פאוסט, מתרגם יצחק כפכפי, 1975, הדפסה שניה 1996 הס, משה, מתוך המאמר "על הממון" (1845), בתוך: משה הס, כתבים כלליים, עורך: מרטין בובר, ירושלים: הספריה הציונית, 1956 (תשט"ז): ובר, מכס, האתיקה הפרוטסטנטית ורוח הקפיטליזם, תל-אביב 1984 (פורסם לראשונה בגרמנית ב ) וולקוב, שולמית, איחוד וחירות בגרמניה : מנפוליאון עד ביסמארק, 1997 וולקוב, שולמית, במעגל המכושף : יהודים, אנטישמים וגרמנים אחרים, 2002 זטלין, ג'ונתן ר, "כסף וסוציאליזם - תכנון כלכלי וקץ הרפובליקה המזרח גרמנית", בתוך: טבור. כתב עת שנתי לענייני היסטוריה, חברה, תרבות והגות של מרכז אירופה. גליון 5: כלכלה ותרבות. עורכים: יותם חותם, שרון גורדון, גדעון ראובני. מרכז מינרבה להיסטוריה גרמנית ע"ש ריכרד קבנר, האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים. ירושלים ותל אביב: רסלינג 2012, ע' ' מרקס, קרל, הקפיטל, מהדורה שניה, 2011 מרקס, קרל, לבקורת הכלכלה המדינית. בתוך: כתבים נבחרים, 1959 מרקס, קרל, על השאלה היהודית, בתוך: כתבי שחרות סמית, אדם, עושר העמים פרגוסון, נייל, עלייתו של הכסף. היסטוריה פיננסית של העולם. תל-אביב, עם עובד 2011 שייקספיר, ויליאם, הסוחר מוונציה שניצלר, ארתור, סיפור חלום, תל-אביב 2008 Additional Reading Material: Davies, Glyn. A History of Money: From Ancient Times to the Present Day. Cardiff: U of Wales, Hayek, Friedrich, Individualism and economic order, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948 Helleiner, Eric. "Economic Nationalism as Challenge to Economic Liberalism? Lessons from the 19th Century." International Studies Quarterly 46 (2002): page 5 / 6

6 Powered by TCPDF ( Hewitt, V., Beauty and the Banknote: Images of Women on Paper Money, London: British Museum Press Hewitt, V., The Bankers Art: Studies in Paper Money, London: British Museum Press.1995 Ingham, Geoffrey, Money is a social relation, Review of Social Economy 54.4 (1996): Jevons, William Stanley, Money and the Mechanism of Exchange. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1876 Jorge Arditi, Simmel's Theory of Alienation and the Decline of the Nonrational, Sociological Theory, Vol. 14, No. 2. (Jul., 1996), pp Chown, John. A History of Money, from A. D London: Routledge, Martial, Alfred, "Biological Analogies for Money: A Crucial Breakthrough." the Journal of Finance 24, no. 1 (1969): Menger, Carl, On the Origin of Money, (2009). Schumpeter, Joseph A., Money and Currency, Social Research, 58.3 (1991): Sheehan, James J. German history, , 1989 Shell, Marc, Money, Language, and Thought: Literary and Philosophic Economies from the Medieval to the Modern Era. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, Wehler, Hans-Ulrich, The German Empire, , 1997 בודריאר, ז'ן, סימולקרות וסימולציות, תל-אביב, הקיבוץ המאוחד 2007 קיינס, ג'ון מיינרד, התאוריה הכללית של תעסוקה, ריבית וכסף, ירושלים ותל-אביב 2007 Course/Module evaluation: End of year written/oral examination 0 % Presentation 0 % Participation in Tutorials 30 % Project work 50 % Assignments 20 % Reports 0 % Research project 0 % Quizzes 0 % Other 0 % Additional information: The course will involve the viewing of films and reading extracts from contemporary newspapers. page 6 / 6