TY - JOUR
T1 - The Beautiful Jew is a Moneylender
T2 - Money and Individuality in Simmel's Rehabilitation of the ‘Jew’
AU - Morris-Reich, Amos
PY - 2003/8
Y1 - 2003/8
N2 - This article contends that Georg Simmel attempted a rehabilitation of the Jewish stereotype in a singular way: via his theory of modernity and the quintessential place held therein by money. The first part of the article, based almost entirely on Simmel's The Philosophy of Money, seeks to demonstrate that Simmel intended to overturn the negative Aristotelian and Marxist assessments of money and of those who deal with it. The second part of the article is based on Simmel's unique theory of type. This part seeks to establish that what Simmel in fact rehabilitates is the Jewish type, rather than any actual historical entity, and that this type is in fact the stereotype of the Jew. Simmel's attempt is made in terms of existential authenticity (i.e. truth and beauty) and in direct relation to the project of modernity (money).
AB - This article contends that Georg Simmel attempted a rehabilitation of the Jewish stereotype in a singular way: via his theory of modernity and the quintessential place held therein by money. The first part of the article, based almost entirely on Simmel's The Philosophy of Money, seeks to demonstrate that Simmel intended to overturn the negative Aristotelian and Marxist assessments of money and of those who deal with it. The second part of the article is based on Simmel's unique theory of type. This part seeks to establish that what Simmel in fact rehabilitates is the Jewish type, rather than any actual historical entity, and that this type is in fact the stereotype of the Jew. Simmel's attempt is made in terms of existential authenticity (i.e. truth and beauty) and in direct relation to the project of modernity (money).
KW - Jew's stereotype
KW - Simmel
KW - modernity
KW - money
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0344197573&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/02632764030204008
DO - 10.1177/02632764030204008
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AN - SCOPUS:0344197573
SN - 0263-2764
VL - 20
SP - 127
EP - 142
JO - Theory, Culture and Society
JF - Theory, Culture and Society
IS - 4
ER -