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Introduction to an extract from Karl Marx’s Manuscripts of 1844: “The Power of Money in Bourgeois Society” 

Pages 45 to 48

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  • Bornhausen, S.
(2016). Introduction to an Extract From Karl Marx’s Manuscripts of 1844: “the Power of Money in Bourgeois Society” Cahiers jungiens de psychanalyse, 143(1), 45-48. https://doi.org/10.3917/cjung.143.0045.

  • Bornhausen, Stéphane.
« Introduction to an extract from Karl Marx’s Manuscripts of 1844: “The Power of Money in Bourgeois Society” ». Cahiers jungiens de psychanalyse, 2016/1 N° 143, 2016. p.45-48. CAIRN.INFO, shs.cairn.info/journal-cahiers-jungiens-de-psychanalyse-2016-1-page-45?lang=en.

  • BORNHAUSEN, Stéphane,
2016. Introduction to an extract from Karl Marx’s Manuscripts of 1844: “The Power of Money in Bourgeois Society” Cahiers jungiens de psychanalyse, 2016/1 N° 143, p.45-48. DOI : 10.3917/cjung.143.0045. URL : https://shs.cairn.info/journal-cahiers-jungiens-de-psychanalyse-2016-1-page-45?lang=en.

https://doi.org/10.3917/cjung.143.0045


English

In this excerpt from the Manuscripts of 1844, entitled “The Power of Money in Bourgeois Society,” Karl Marx presents money as a highly ambivalent power, both divine and perverse. The essay is suggestive, attesting to reflection on the human consequences of mercantile exchanges.

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