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Author Perlin, Frank, author.

Title City intelligible : a philosophical and historical anthropology of global commoditisation before industrialisation / by Frank Perlin
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color)
Series Studies in global social history ; volume 38
Studies in global social history ; 38.
Summary "In City Intelligible Perlin marries a transcendental-critical philosophical approach with one historical and empirical in order to penetrate the culture of commodification dominating global societal development over many centuries prior to industrialisation. Commodification represents a dense and abundant global evidence for the essential translatability informing all cultural difference and enabling exchange of cultural goods transiting all settled society. Perlin investigates the two anthropologies - one universalist and the other particularist - in order to reach an eventual synthesis that reinterprets societal relationship both in detail and in general, leading to a derivation of the universal foundations of human reasoning and formation of culture both logically and empirically (historically), and that in founds a comprehension of human differentiation"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 09, 2021)
Subject Money -- History
Economic anthropology.
Economic anthropology
Money
Money -- History
Economic anthropology
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019046042
ISBN 9789004414921
9004414924