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Simmel's account, as Jiang reads it, of money embodying abstract relations and making reality graspable.
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money as symbolic object
Simmel's account, as Jiang reads it, of money embodying abstract relations and making reality graspable.
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"...Okay, here explains it. The projection of mere relations into particular objects is one of the great accomplishments of the mind, okay? So we're..."
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"...understand reality much better, okay? The ability to construct such symbolic objects attains its greatest triumph in money, okay? Money becomes a placeholder for..."
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"So, at the beginning of the class, I talked about money, right? How money takes all our different perspectives and converges into one thing,..."
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