Sociality and Money

IF 4.8 Q1 Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Business Ethics-A European Review Pub Date : 2007-07-01 DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8608.2007.00492.x

E. Lévinas, François Bouchetoux, Campbell Jones

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Abstract

This is a translation of ‘Socialite et argent’, a text by Emmanuel Levinas originally published in 1987. Levinas describes the emergence of money out of interhuman relations of exchange and the social relations – sociality – that result. While elsewhere he has presented sociality as ‘nonindifference to alterity’ it appears here as ‘proximity of the stranger’ and points to the tension between an economic system based on money and the basic human disposition to respond to the face of the other person. Money both encodes and effaces sociality, both designates and disguises social relations. It arises from the way that needs and interests are manifested in exchange relations, in what he calls the ‘interestedness’ of economic life. But interests are always already cut through by the fact that being is always ‘being with others’. Being is always ‘interbeing’. Interestedness is always confronted by disinterestedness, that is, by a sociality marked by the ‘goodness of giving’, attachment to and concern for the poverty of the other person. Levinas concludes with a discussion of sociality and justice, posing questions about the tension between the demand to respond to an Other immediately before me and at the same time to respond to the demands of an other Other (the third person) who also invites a response.

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社交与金钱

这是由伊曼纽尔·列维纳斯(Emmanuel Levinas)于1987年首次出版的《社会名流与代理人》(Socialite et agent)的翻译。列维纳斯描述了货币的出现源于人与人之间的交换关系以及由此产生的社会关系——社会性。在其他地方，他将社会表现为“对另类漠不关心”，而在这里，他表现为“接近陌生人”，并指出了基于金钱的经济体系与人类对他人面孔做出反应的基本性格之间的紧张关系。金钱既能编码社会关系又能掩盖社会关系，既能指定社会关系又能掩饰社会关系。它源于需求和利益在交换关系中表现出来的方式，即他所谓的经济生活的“利益”。但利益总是已经被存在总是“与他人在一起”这一事实所切断。存在总是“相互作用”。利益总是与无私相冲突，也就是说，以“给予的善良”为标志的社会，依恋和关心他人的贫困。列维纳斯以对社会性和正义的讨论结束，提出了一些问题，关于在我面前立即回应他者的要求与同时回应另一个他者(第三人称)的要求之间的紧张关系，他者也邀请了回应。

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