The Wisdom of Money / / Pascal Bruckner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Bruckner, Pascal,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Translator’S Note --; Part I. The Worshippers And The Despisers --; The Devil’S Dung --; On The Eminent Dignity Of The Poor? --; France, Or The Taboo On Money --; America, Or Spiritual Money --; Part II. Three Myths About The Golden Calf --; Money, The Ruler Of The World? --; Does Opulence Make People Unhappy? --; Has Sordid Calculation Killed Sublime Love? --; Part III. Richesse Oblige --; Should Bourgeois Values Be Rehabilitated? --; Getting Rich Is Not A Crime (And Falling Into Poverty Is Not A Virtue) --; The Hand That Takes, The Hand That Gives Back --; Conclusion: An Acknowledged Schizophrenia --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674978423; 9783110543315
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674978423
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Pascal Bruckner.

Money is an evil that does good, and a good that does evil. It is wise to have money, says Pascal Bruckner, and wise to think and talk about it critically. One of the world’s great essayists guides us through the commentary that money has generated since ancient times, as he builds an unfashionable defense of the worldly wisdom of the bourgeoisie.