Money as a Psychic Shield
In The Philosophy of Money, Georg Simmel examined both the modalities by which monetary processes may be perverted and the manner in which money may, in turn, pervert a culture. Having analysed what may be considered in Simmel’s thought to deal with perverse structures contradicting interactionist and vitalist dynamics, this article (in progress) aims to examine more closely a social modality of action motivated by a specific money culture : that is, cynicism. More than simply a psychological disposition underpinning a certain relationship with money, this attitude is socially conditioned by the interference of a fetishized media within sociological elaborations of social actors in relation to value facts.