Platon – państwo bez pieniędzy i literatury
Plato – A State Without Money or Literature

Summary/Abstract: This article analyses the relationship between money and literature in the Platonic con¬cept of the state. Money and the poetic word are ontosemilogical media to represent the world, and can threaten the ideal order. Sowiński examines the logic of equivalence that underlies both money and literature. As an analogy, his analysis uses Derrida’s reflections on Plato’s exclusion of writing from the order of philosophy. Money, like writing, intro¬duces an additional mediation of reality, thereby destroying the ideal ontological order. The article indicates the source identification of economy and literature in the Western tradition and points to possible ways in which this convergence can be used to develop a critical methodological apparatus for the study of literature.

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