Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

ANGELA CONDELLO

1. Why a book on money?

2. Why this book on money?

3. Money, social ontology, and law

1 Money: ontology and deception

JOHN ROGERS 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?

2 The color of money

MAURIZIO 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

3 Socio-legal reality in the making: money as a paradigm

ANGELA CONDELLO

1. A basic social institution

2. Overview on Searle’s and Ferraris’s 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’s documentality

4. Broadening the field: from money to legal reality

4.1. Res, pecunia, lis

5. Conclusion: socio-legal reality in the making

Conclusion

ANGELA CONDELLO

1. Medium of exchange

2. Money (as law) is a social technology

Bibliography

Index

1. Cover
2. Half Title
3. Series Page
4. Title
5. Copyright
6. Contents
7. Acknowledgments
8. Introduction
   1. 1. Why a book on money?
   2. 2. Why this book on money?
   3. 3. Money, social ontology, and law
9. 1 Money: ontology and deception
   1. 1. The functions of money and the definition of money
   2. 2. Social ontology
   3. 3. Status functions are created by Declaration
   4. 4. Money is always a status function
   5. 5. Further forms of deception and money
   6. 6. Money and deception, a summary
   7. 7. What is money?
10. 2 The color of money
    1. 0. Introduction: which came first, the chicken or the egg?
    2. 1. Epistemology
       1. 1.1. Analysis
       2. 1.2. Manifest image
       3. 1.3. Deep structure
       4. 1.4. Pentecost or emergence
    3. 2. Ontology
       1. 2.1. Dialectic
       2. 2.2. Necessary condition
       3. 2.3. Sufficient condition
       4. 2.4. Power and form
    4. 3. Technology
       1. 3.1. Competence without understanding
       2. 3.2. Iteration
       3. 3.3. The mystic foundation of authority
11. 3 Socio-legal reality in the making: money as a paradigm
    1. 1. A basic social institution
    2. 2. Overview on Searle’s and Ferraris’s theories of money
    3. 3. Social reality and law: cross-breeding intentionality with documentality
       1. 3.1. The symbolic socio-legal object for Searle: money as status function
       2. 3.2. Tracing socio-legal reality: Maurizio Ferraris’s documentality
    4. 4. Broadening the field: from money to legal reality
       1. 4.1. Res, pecunia, lis
    5. 5. Conclusion: socio-legal reality in the making
12. Conclusion
    1. 1. Medium of exchange
    2. 2. Money (as law) is a social technology
13. Bibliography
14. Index

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Guide

1. Cover
2. Half Title
3. Series Page
4. Title
5. Copyright
6. Contents
7. Acknowledgments
8. Start of Content
9. Bibliography
10. Index