Clipped Coins, Abused Words, and Civil Government: John Locke's Philosophy of Money

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George Caffentzis Harry Cleaver

Clipped Coins, Abused Words, and Civil Government

John Locke's Philosophy of Money

George Caffentzis, Harry Cleaver

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Pluto Press
20 July 2021

Language Reference & Linguistics; Western philosophy: Enlightenment; Economic theory & philosophy; Political economy; Economic history

This book situates John Locke's philosophy of knowledge and his political theory within his engagement in British monetary debates of the 17th and 18th century.

Anchored in extensive archival research, George Caffentzis offers the most expansive reading of Locke's economic thought to date, contextualizing it within the expansion of capitalist accumulation on a world scale and the universality of money as a medium of exchange.

Updated with a new introduction by Paul Rekret, a new foreword by Harry Cleaver and new material by the author, Clipped Coins, Abused Words, and Civil Government continues to make a significant intervention in contemporary debates around the history of capitalism, colonialism and philosophy.

By: George Caffentzis
Foreword by: Harry Cleaver
Imprint: Pluto Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 135mm,
Weight: 435g
ISBN: 9780745342054
ISBN 10: 0745342051
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 20 July 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

George Caffentzis is a co-founder of the Midnight Notes Collective and coordinator of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa (CAFA). Caffentzis was a professor of philosophy at the University of Southern Maine for over thirty years before retirement. His previous publications include In Letters of Blood and Fire: Work, Machines, and the Crisis of Capitalism (Brooklyn: Common Notions, 2013).

Reviews for Clipped Coins, Abused Words, and Civil Government: John Locke's Philosophy of Money

'Caffentzis is a practical philosopher and a pure teacher. His reasoning even at its most abstract always tends to the political. The street is his classroom. This is truly vulgar Marxism, that is, it is a critique by, with, and for the vulgus, or common people (you and I)' -- Peter Linebaugh, author of 'The Magna Carta Manifesto' (University of California Press, 2008)