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A religion of unbelief

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2023

Noam Yuran
Noam Yuran*
Affiliation:
Tel Aviv University, Israel
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Corresponding author: Noam Yuran, Minerva HumanitiesCenter, Tel Aviv University, Chaim Levanon St., Tel Aviv, 6997801, Israel.Email: noamyuran@gmail.com
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I have always been somewhat suspicious of attempts to theorize money in linguistic terms. Though the symbolic and conventional aspects of money make a parallel with language seem attractive, such attempts usually refrain from considering the consequences of the fact that money belongs to the order of private property, which is strictly opposed to the common sphere of language. Wouldn't conceiving of money as language force us to confront the abhorrent, monstrous possibility of words that can be owned?

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Forum: Money’s other worlds
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Finance and Society , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , 2015 , pp. 30 - 33
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