Capitalist cold : emotions and the economy in Europe and the United States / edited by Agnes Arndt and Kerstin Maria Pahl.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introducing Capitalist Cold: Emotions and Economic Structures From the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century -- Part I A Cold System? -- 1 The Cold Bourgeoisie: Affect and Colonial Property -- 2 Cold Pop: How West German Pop Culture Began to Embrace the Modern World -- Part II Cold Capitalists? -- 3 Cold Melancholy: Tempers of Financial Pathology in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol -- 4 Citizen-Subjects of Capitalism: Comparing the Autobiographies of John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton and Rose Friedman -- 5 Hope, Indignation, Nostalgia: The Emotional Navigation of Urban Modernity in Post-War Istanbul -- 6 Warm Socialism and Cold Capitalism?: The Ongoing Debate Over the Economic Reconstruction of Eastern Germany After Revolution and Reunification, 1989–1990 -- 7 “Small Group, Big Business”: Imagining Capitalism and Capitalists in Late-Socialist Poland -- 8 “Closed Doors, Sealed Lips”: Emotional Practices On Legal and Illegal Art Markets in Early Twentieth-Century Germany.

"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. To explore the role of emotions in economic practices and imaginaries, the volume presents case studies including original rereadings of well-known texts such as Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment, as well as forays into little-known histories such as representations of capitalists in post-war Turkey, and how art dealers strategically used emotions for navigating the market in interwar Germany. Rather than simply reproducing the image of "cold capitalism", however, it offers nuanced investigations into the ambivalent images evoked by living and working within economic structures. In late-socialist Poland, capitalism felt "warm" and "fuzzy", while pop culture of the seventies found it not destructive but cool, hip, and edgy. This book is aimed at students and scholars of social, economic, and cultural history"-- Provided by publisher.