WorkPlace Studies or Money and the Early Greek Mind

Workplace Studies: Recovering Work Practice and Informing System Design

Author: Paul Luff

This important new book brings together key researchers in Europe and the United States to discuss critical issues in the study of the workplace and to outline recent developments in the field. The collection is divided into two parts.

Part I contains a number of detailed case studies that not only provide an insight into the issues central to workplace studies but also some of the problems involved in carrying out such research.

Part II focuses on the interrelationship between workplace studies and the design of new technologies.

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Money and the Early Greek Mind: Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy

Author: Richard Seaford

How were the Greeks of the sixth century BC able to invent philosophy and tragedy? Richard Seaford argues that a large part of the answer can be found in another momentous development, the invention and rapid spread of coinage. By transforming social relations, monetization contributed to the concepts of the universe as an impersonal system (fundamental to Presocratic philosophy) and of the individual alienated from his own kin and from the gods, as found in tragedy.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction
Pt. I	The genesis of coined money
2	Homeric transactions
3	Sacrifice and distribution
4	Greece and the Ancient Near East
5	Greek money
6	The preconditions of coinage
7	The earliest coins
8	The features of money
Pt. II	The making of metaphysics
9	Did politics produce philosophy?
10	Anaximander and Xenophanes
11	The many and the one
12	Heraclitus and Parmenides
13	Pythagoreanism and Protagoras
14	Individualisation
App	Money in the Early Ancient Near East