Hammond, Mark Eden Stefan; (1999) Heidegger and money: A phenomenological investigation. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D.), University College London.

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The thesis you are about to read is an application of Heidegger's phenomenological method. What distinguishes my application of this method from all others, is that none of these have ever applied it to money. I however will apply it to money. The first chapter explains the phenomenological method I am going to use, the steps I must follow in order to apply it, and the traditional philosophical attitude towards money. The second chapter discusses Heidegger's theory of intentionality, in relation to both the perceptual comportment and the productive comportment of Dasein. The third and fourth chapters consider the same question—Why did Heidegger never investigate money phenomenologically?—from two different angles. The third chapter considers this question in relation to common sense; the fourth in relation to the history of philosophy. The fifth and sixth chapters apply the phenomenological method to money in a way which yields some very basic ontological conclusions about money and its mode of being. The fifth chapter follows those steps in the phenomenological method that have to do with reduction and destruction, while the sixth chapter follows that step in the phenomenological method that has to do with construction. The seventh chapter applies the phenomenological method to value where value is meant in the monetary sense of the word. The last chapter attempts to unify some of the conclusions I have reached in the previous seven chapters by considering money in relation to some of the things Heidegger said about science and technology in the modem age. In doing this I will confront some of the most important questions Dasein has ever had to face. It is not however my intention to offer any kind of a normative response to the questions I will confront. Such a response belongs outside the boundaries of this work.

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