The Crisis of European Social Sciences: The Case of Money
Our aim in this article is to put into practice, in the field of social sciences, the principles that Husserl displayed in his book from 1936, "The crisis of European sciences and transcendental phenomenology”. In that seminal work, Husserl reflected on the mathematization of nature and produce...
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| Lenguaje: | inglés |
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2013
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| Sumario: | Our aim in this article is to put into
practice, in the field of social sciences, the
principles that Husserl displayed in his book
from 1936, "The crisis of European sciences and
transcendental phenomenology”. In that seminal work, Husserl reflected on the
mathematization of nature and produced an
historical meditation on the essence of geometry. Here we will try to extend the reach of
Husserlian postulates in order to deal with economics and, more specifically, with the theory
of money. We think that, in certain social sciences, and in particular in those with a clear
mathematical penchant like economics, the use
of formalization often helps to cover an uncritical use of phenomenologically ungrounded
idealizations. This fact ultimately results in a
massive concealment of the true sense of some
of its principal phenomena –namely, money. It
is worth mentioning that this concern does not
have its roots only in phenomenology, for even
academic monetary theory openly acknowledges that we lack an understanding of the meaning of money which could help us clarify and
prevent financial crisis and economic collapses.
Crisis, in short, are not the result of a deep
understanding of the concept of money; on the
contrary, they highlight the fact that we don’t
really know what money is. Thus, our goal here
is to illustrate the possibilities offered by the
phenomenological method in its application to
the question of money. It is in this sense that
the research taking place here can be understood as a “phenomenological critique of monetary theory”. |
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