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Georg Simmel’s The Philosophy of Money is a classic work of social theory and philosophical sociology that examines money not as a technical economic tool, but as a force that reshapes modern life. First published in 1900, it asks how monetary exchange changes the way people value objects, relate to one another, and understand themselves. Simmel is especially interested in the social and cultural consequences of a money economy: increased abstraction, greater calculability, new forms of freedom, and also distance, indifference, and alienation. The book does not function as a manual on finance or economics. Instead, it uses money as a lens for understanding modernity, showing how economic forms influence personality, urban life, culture, and the organization of social relations. As a result, it remains influential across sociology, philosophy, cultural theory, and political thought, especially for readers trying to understand how value is formed in modern societies.