Searle John Rogers, Ferraris Maurizio, Condello Angela. Money, Social Ontology and Law

London: Routledge, 2019. — 88 p. — ISBN10: 0367191113; ISBN13: 978-0367191115 — (Law and Politics)Presenting legal and philosophical essays on money, this book explores the conditions according to which an object like a piece of paper, or an electronic signal, has come to be seen as having a value. Money plays a crucial role in the regulation of social relationships and their normative determination. It is thus integral to the very nature of the “social”, and the question of how society is kept together by a network of agreements, conventions, exchanges, and codes. All of which must be traced down. The technologies of money discussed here by Searle, Ferraris, and Condello show how we conceive the category of the social at the intersection of individual and collective intentionality, documentality, and materiality. All of these dimensions, as the introduction to this volume demonstrates, are of vital importance for legal theory and for a whole set of legal concepts that are crucial in reflections on the relationship between law, philosophy, and society.Introduction. [b]Angela CondelloWhy a book on money?
Why this book on money?
Money, social ontology, and law[b]Money: ontology and deception. John Rogers SearleThe functions of money and the definition of money
Social ontology
Status functions are created by Declaration
Money is always a status function
Further forms of deception and money
Money and deception, a summary
What is money?The color of money. Maurizio FerrarisIntroduction: which came first, the chicken or the egg?EpistemologyAnalysis
Manifest image
Deep structure
Pentecost or emergenceOntologyDialectic
Necessary condition
Sufficient condition
Power and formTechnologyCompetence without understanding
Iteration
The mystic foundation of authoritySocio-legal reality in the making: money as a paradigm. Angela CondelloA basic social institution
Overview on Searle’s and Ferraris’s theories of moneySocial reality and law: cross-breeding intentionality with documentalityThe symbolic socio-legal object for Searle: money as status function
Tracing socio-legal reality: Maurizio Ferraris’s documentalityBroadening the field: from money to legal realityRes, pecunia, lisConclusion: socio-legal reality in the makingConclusion. Angela CondelloMedium of exchange
Money (as law) is a social technology