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标题：Speculating the Subject of Money: Georg Simmel on Human Value
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作者：Devin Singh
期刊名称：Religions
电子版ISSN：2077-1444
出版年度：2016
卷号：7
期号：7
页码：80
DOI：10.3390/rel7070080
语种：English
出版社：MDPI Publishing
摘要：This article initiates an inquiry into the sources and frameworks of value used to denote human subjects in modernity. In particular, I consider the conflation of monetary, legal, and theological registers employed to demarcate human worth. Drawing on Simmel’s speculative genealogy of the money equivalent of human values, I consider the spectrum of ascriptions from specifically quantified to infinite human value. I suggest that predications of infinite human value require and imply quantified—and specifically monetary-economic—human value. Cost and worth, economically and legally defined, provide a foundation for subsequent eternal projections in a theological imaginary. This calls into question the interventionist potential of claims to infinite or unquantifiable human value as resistance to the contemporary financialization of human life and society.
关键词：Simmel; Dodd; Foucault; money; value; financialization; secularization; theology Simmel ; Dodd ; Foucault ; money ; value ; financialization ; secularization ; theology