Clipped Coins, Abused Words, and Civil Government

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<p>This book situates John Lockes philosophy of knowledge and his political theory within his engagement in British monetary debates of the 17th and 18th century.</p><p>Anchored in extensive archival research, George Caffentzis offers the most expansive reading of Lockes economic thought to date, contextualizing it within the expansion of capitalist accumulation on a world scale and the universality of money as a medium of exchange.</p><p>Updated with a new introduction by Paul Rekret, a new foreword by Harry Cleaver and new material by the author,<em>Clipped Coins, Abused Words, and Civil Government</em> continues to make a significant intervention in contemporary debates around the history of capitalism, colonialism and philosophy.</p>

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<p>George Caffentzis is a co-founder of the Midnight Notes Collective and coordinator of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa (CAFA). Caffentzis was a professor of philosophy at the University of Southern Maine for over thirty years before retirement. His previous publications include<em>In Letters of Blood and Fire: Work, Machines, and the Crisis of Capitalism</em> (Brooklyn: Common Notions, 2013).</p>

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