In this paper I will try to understand which aspects monetary economy changes or affects love in the modernity, without losing sight that such relationships are embedded in a context where market relations and individualism dominate, but also human relations with all their complexity, contradictions and surprises. Through dialogue with Georg Simmel, in his discussion of money and modern society, and authors like Tönnies, Giddens and Lázaro, we discuss some of the various issues involved in this debate. We take for granted that love and money in our society appear as poles around which life revolves, and if, prima facie, are represented as separated or antagonistic elements, from another angle are complementary desires. The society of money, in our view, gives rise to a new kind of love: modern love, manufactured, interested, that cannot stand without the money base.
money; love; modernity; society; community