Мы они ground of value and meaning. We live not in a world of things in themselves but in a dense historically, socially, and culturally constituted, inter- and trans-subjective network of symbols, meanings, and value. Only by grasping the phenomena of cultural life—ultimately, the coherency of the world—as the product of human endeavor can we understand ourselves qua human beings. Reflection upon money as the symbol and bearer of very material processes of abstraction is uniquely suited to fostering insight into the relation between human praxis and signification: insight into the genesis but also the limits of meaning and value as functions of human (social, cultural) being. .. Cultural history shows that despite the vast variety of objects that have served as money, money as such tends to abstractness: tends to lose its meaning as substance and become simply the signifier of its social function. Over time, naturalia "cease to be money or to be able to be money in proportion as money ceases to be a use-value." This dynamic is internal to the cultural process: "Money becomes ever more an expression of economic value because this is itself nothing other than the relativity of the things as exchangeable with one another." Relativity thereby comes to dominate and suppress "all other qualities" so that money itself eventually becomes "nothing other than relativity itself that has become substance." Money evolves socially, historically, culturally from substance to function, object to sign. .. Zeichen der Zeit, signs of the time. Among these signs were religious, social, political, and moral tendencies of the day that seemed to indicate the dramatic nature of the present and its proximity to the end times. The cult of luxury was one of them. .. Children were instructed that “hidden money was dead money.” .. spirit ensured that money would multiply miraculously. .. It touched upon not only the health of the population being treated with chemical medicaments (and their spiritual well-being in the case of black magic) .. trials that we know of did not simply identify the Geldmannchen magic with witchcraft. .. owning a Geldmannchen offered a way out of a desperate situation. In sum, four things characterized Geldmannchen magic. First, it was unclear where the money actually came from; supposedly, the Geldmannchen could create money out of thin air. In social terms, people said to have a Geldmannchen were considered social and economic upstarts. Although these upstarts attributed their economic success to hard work, fellow villagers saw it differently; the Geldmannchen was responsible. People who tried to get one were often in a desperate economic situation. Geldmannchen magic was punished very leniently. .. urbanization, population increase,
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