پژوهشنامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامههای علوم انسانی (May 2020)
Simmel’s Philosophy of Money and Academic Specialization
Abstract
Philosophy of Money is the most important work of Georg Simmel that is reconsidered nowadays in academies after that was neglected during the last century. In contrast to its title, this book is not about economics. It is a book on the multidisciplinary subject in the fields of philosophy, culture, psychology, social sciences, and economics. This article has two goals; first, to introduce the content of this work briefly and second, to analyze the relation of this book to academic specialization in scientific disciplines. For the first purpose, the most important concepts of the Philosophy of Money are reviewed briefly. The second purpose is considered from two aspects; first, what are the reasons for reconsidering this work in academies nowadays, after a century of neglect? And second, what relevance can this work hold to the humanities and social sciences’ situation in Iran? Therefore, in the first place, the Simmel’s theory of social forms is reviewed, and then upon it, concepts such as objectification, ramification, subject-object, modernity, aesthetics, end-mean, and the form of religion are discussed. In appraising the relevance of Philosophy of Money to academic specialization in the contemporary world and especially to the academic atmosphere in Iran, nowadays phenomena of the booming of interdisciplinary research in humanities and social sciences and the relation of religion to these sciences are considered.
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