Capitalist Cold : Emotions and the Economy in Europe and the United States / Agnes Arndt

Introducing Capitalist Cold: Emotions and Economic Structures From the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century -- The History of Capitalism and Emotions -- The Cold Heart of Capitalism and the Career of a Metaphor -- Feeling Economic Structures From the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century: Outline and Outlook -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part I A Cold System? -- The Cold Bourgeoisie: Affect and Colonial Property -- Introduction -- Capitalism and Entrepreneurial Coldness: Adorno, Horkheimer, and The Odyssey -- Capitalism and Ownership of the Self: John Locke and Colonial Conquest -- “Whiteness as Property”: Cheryl Harris and the White Claim to the World -- Coldness as Colonial Affect -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Cold Pop: How West German Pop Culture Began to Embrace the Modern World -- Cold Pop -- Historical Parallels and Frameworks -- Counter-counterculture -- Capitalist Cold? -- After the Cold -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II Cold Capitalists? -- Cold Melancholy: Tempers of Financial Pathology in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol -- Introduction -- Scrooge’s Melancholy: Between Victorian Psychology and the Humoral Tradition -- The Time of Melancholy Or the “Rule of Time” -- The Temperature of Melancholy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Citizen-Subjects of Capitalism: Comparing the Autobiographies of John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton and Rose Friedman -- Introduction -- The Progress of John Kenneth Galbraith -- Milton and Rose Friedman: A Lucky Family of Peddlers -- Conclusion: Citizen-Subjects of Their Worlds -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Hope, Indignation, Nostalgia: The Emotional Navigation of Urban Modernity in Post-War Istanbul -- Post-war Istanbul as a Site of Capitalist Accumulation -- Streets Paved With Gold: Istanbul as a Landscape of Hope -- The Poor But Proud City -- Nostalgia as a Bulwark Against Unchecked Progress -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part III Cold Markets? -- Warm Socialism and Cold Capitalism?: The Ongoing Debate Over the Economic Reconstruction of Eastern Germany After Revolution and Reunification, 1989–1990 -- East and West: Renewed Debates Over Germany -- Torpor and Euphoria: From “Third Way” to “Economic Miracle” -- Outrage and Disillusionment: The “Slaughterhouse” of “Manchester Capitalism” -- Remembrance and Empowerment: A “Bad Bank” in East German Memory Culture -- Hot and Cold: Fluctuating Temperatures Between Socialism and Capitalism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- “Small Group, Big Business”: Imagining Capitalism and Capitalists in Late-Socialist Poland -- “Dolce Vita Polish Style”? Emotional Attitudes Towards Private Business and “Speculators” -- New Experiences and Changing Emotions During and After Martial Law -- Preparing for Neoliberal Takeover -- Conclusion: A System Without Qualities Vs “The Real Thing” -- Notes -- Bibliography -- “Closed Doors, Sealed Lips”: Emotional Practices On Legal and Illegal Art Markets in Early Twentieth-Century Germany -- In Warm Markets, “Everything Serves the Establishment of Trust” -- Dealers, Experts, Educators: Emotions as Essential Elements of the Art Market -- A Holy Family By “Rembrandt”: Trust Supplanting Contracts and Documentation (1924–1929) -- Getting “Bright Eyes”: A Warm Market and the Passion for Art in the Case of Antonello Da Messina (1905–1932) -- “Capitalism Rules Everywhere”: Preserving the Elitist Structure and Emotional Bonds On the Art Market Beyond 1945 -- Conclusion: Keeping Doors Closed and Lips Sealed -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

The capitalist system has often been described by its critics as a heartless economic structure corroding social bonds and symbolic values. Its defenders and analysts likewise use narratives that position emotions as central to the economy. This book enquires into the history of these framings.

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