Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. I. Philosophies of Money
5. Money is Time: Thoughts on Credit and Crisis 23
6. Metaphors We Pay For, or: Metaphors of the ‘Financial Crisis’ Shaping the Cultural Life of Money 47
7. Money: From Midas to Madoff 69
8. II. The Arts and Finance
9. Death and Diamonds: Finance and Art 81
10. Art and its Potentialities: From the Virtual to Speculation 97
11. The Magic Triangle 107
12. III. Literature and Money Matters
13. Phantom Counterfeits: Credit and Betrayal in a (Post)-Modern Polity 121
14. From Miser to Capitalist: An Economic Reading of Aluísio Azevedo’s O Cortiço 131
15. Not So Far Apart: Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks and Martin Amis’s Money 143
16. “Outside, the yellow lions are grinning” 155
17. IV. Cognitive Moneyscapes
18. Meanings of Money in Literature: D. J. Taylor’s Novel Kept (2006) as a Test Case for Exploring Cognitive Functions of Literature 165
19. Cognitive Science and How We Think about Money 181
20. Second Life: The Emergence of a New Moneyscape 197
21. Coda: The Art of Giving
22. Money and Philanthropy: The Idea of Money 213
23. Contributors 219
24. Index 225