Capitalist Cold

Emotions and the Economy in Europe and the United States
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-39912-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 484 g

Reihe: Routledge Approaches to History

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.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylor francis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution- Non- Commercial- No Derivatives
(CC- BY- NC- ND) 4.0 license.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arndt, Agnes

Pahl, Kerstin Maria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I

A Cold System?

 

Chapter 1

The Cold Bourgeoisie. Affect and Colonial Property

By Henrike Kohpeiß

 

Chapter 2

Cold Pop. How West German Pop Culture Began to Embrace the Modern World

By Florian Völker

 

Part II

Cold Capitalists?

 

Chapter 3

Cold Melancholy. Tempers of Financial Pathology in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol

By Timothy Attanucci

 

Chapter 4

Citizen-Subjects of Capitalism. Comparing the Autobiographies of John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton and Rose Friedman

By Maurice Cottier

 

Chapter 5

Hope, Indignation, Nostalgia. The Emotional Navigation of Urban Modernity in Post-War Istanbul

By Emre Gönlügür

 

Part III

Cold Markets?

 

Chapter 6

Warm Socialism and Cold Capitalism? The Ongoing Debate Over the Economic Reconstruction of Eastern Germany After Revolution and Reunification, 1989–1990

By Marcus Böick

 

Chapter 7

“Small Group, Big Business”. Imagining Capitalism and Capitalists in Late-Socialist Poland

By Florian Peters

 

Chapter 8

“Closed Doors, Sealed Lips”. Emotional Practices on Legal and Illegal Art Markets in Early Twentieth-Century Germany

By Paul Franke

Über Autor(innen)

Agnes Arndt is a senior researcher at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies and has worked extensively on Modern European History and the Cultural History of Economics. She is the author of Intellektuelle in der Oppostion (2007) and Rote Bürger (2013) and the co-author of Feeling Political (2022). [e-mail]

Kerstin Maria Pahl is a post-doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development specializing in the cultural history of the Anglophone world. Her publications include Revisiting the History of Emotions (ed. 2023) and The Visual Worlds of Life Writing. Portraits and Biographies in England, 1680-1750 (2024). [e-mail]