Reification, Resistance, and Ironic Empiricism in Georg Simmel's Philosophy of Money

Author: Cassano, Graham

Source: Rethinking Marxism, Volume 17, Number 4, October 2005 , pp. 571-590(20)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:

This essay examines Georg Simmel's Philosophy of Money in relation to certain themes in the Marxian philosophical tradition. It first examines Simmel's thoroughgoing and antiessentialist epistemology of exchange. It then looks at a contrary movement taken by Simmel's thought, in which he seems to posit an absolute objectivity in an almost Kantian vein. Finally, it explains Simmel's position through a look at his theory of capitalist reification and the necessary and ironic resistance that reification implies for a critical theory of society.

Keywords: Georg Simmel; Epistemology; Irony; Exchange Theory; Reification; Critical Theory

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08935690500241519

Publication date: 2005-10-01

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