Money, language, and thought Book

	List of Illustrations
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: From Electrum to Electricity	1
1	The Gold Bug: Introduction to "the Industry of Letters" in America	5
	Monetary and Aesthetic Theory	5
	The Bug for Gold	8
	The Humbug: Entomological Specimen, Species of Madness, and Specie	10
	From Nothing to Something	14
	The Goolah Bug: Linguistic Goolah and Monetary Goole	18
	Last Words	22
2	The Blank Check: Accounting for the Grail	24
	Dearth and Plenitude	27
	Promise and Delivery	29
	An Exchange Contract	32
	Ideal and Real Estate	34
	Checking Out the Eucharist	39
3	The Wether and the Ewe: Verbal Usury in The Merchant of Venice	47
	Use, Ewes, and Iewes	48
	From Courtship to Court	55
	My Purse, My Person	60
	Cancellations	69
	Redemption?	76
4	Language and Property: The Economics of Translation in Goethe's Faust	84
	Translation	84
	Wealth and Poetry	91
	Paper Money and Language	99
	The Evocation of Helen	111
	The Law of the Fist (Faustrecht)	117
	The Dead Pledge (Faustpfand)	121
	The Dialectical Plot	126
5	Money of the Mind: Dialectic and Monetary Form in Kant and Hegel	131
	Suppression and Adequation in Kant	133
	Against Formalism	137
	Sublation and the Modus Tollens	139
	Checkers and Cheeks	142
	The Difference	147
	Putting Hegel Down	150
6	"What is Truth?": Lessing's Numismatics and Heidegger's Alchemy	156
	Nathan the Wise	157
	On the Essence of Truth	162
	On the Epigram	170
	Conclusion	179
	App. I: Beyond Chrysography	191
	App. II: Likeness and Likelihood	194
	App. III: The Money Complex of Psychoanalysis	196
	Index	227