Why did coinage, tyranny, and philosophy develop in the same time and place? Marc Shell explores how both money and language give "worth" by providing a medium
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This book contends that mainstream considerations of the economic and social force of culture, including theories of the creative class and of cognitive and imm
This is a book about one of the great untold stories of modern cultural life: the remarkable ascendancy of prizes in literature and the arts. Such prizes and th
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