TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION (by A. Condello)
1. Why a Book on Money?
2. Why This Book on Money?
3. Money, Social Ontology and Law
CHAPTER I
Money: Ontology and Deception (by J.R. Searle)
1. The Functions of Money and the Definition of Money
2. Social ontology
3. Status functions are created by declaration
4. Money is Always a Status Function
5. Further Forms of Deception and Money
6. Money and Deception, a Summary
7. What is Money?
CHAPTER II
The Color of Money (by M. Ferraris)
0. Introduction: Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg
1. Epistemology
1.1. Analysis
1.2. Manifest Image
1.3. Deep Structure
1.4. Pentecost or Emergence
2. Ontology
2.1. Dialectic
2.2. Necessary Condition
2.3. Sufficient Condition
2.4. Power and Form
3. Technology
3.1. Competence without Understanding
3.2. Iteration
3.3. The Mystic Foundation of Authority
CHAPTER III
Socio-legal Reality in the Making. Money as a Paradigm (by A. Condello)
1. A Basic Social Institution
2. Overview on Searle’s and Ferraris’ Theories of Money
3. Social Reality and Law: Cross-Breeding Intentionality with Documentality
3.1 The Symbolic Socio-legal Object for Searle: Money as Status Function
3.2 Tracing Socio-Legal Reality: Maurizio Ferraris’ Documentality
4. Broadening the Field: from Money to Legal Reality
4.1 Res, pecunia, lis
5. Conclusion. Socio-Legal Reality in the Making
CONCLUSION (by A. Condello)
1. Means of Exchange
2. Money (as Law) is a Social Technology
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Angela Condello , University of Torino
Maurizio Ferraris , University of Torino
John Rogers Searle , University of California, Berkeley
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