Historicizing Self-Interest in the Modern Atlantic World (eBook)

Introduction: The Search for Self-Interest and the Problems with its Historicization Part 1: Creating, Inspiring and Calculating Self-Interest 1. Improvement, Projecting, and Self-Interest in the Hartlib Circle, c. 1640-1660 2. Reckoning Self-Interest at the French Revolutionary Comité des Finances Part 2: Understanding, Teaching, and Learning about Self-Interest 3. Commercial Sociability and the Management of Self-Interest in Isaac de Pinto's Letter on Card-Playing 4. The Concept of Self-interest in Eighteenth Century Anthropology and Economic Theory. From Richard Cumberland to Adam Smith 5. The Problem of Embeddedness Revisited. Self-Interest as a Challenge in Ethnographic and Historical Research Part 3: Embodying, Feeling and Practicing Self-Interest 6. Commercial Desires in a Web of Interest. Dutch Discourses on (Self-)interest, 1600-1830 7. Practical Knowledge of Self-Interest: The Disembedding of Agency in Rural Areas, Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries 8. Pursuing Self-Interest: Stock Market Speculation in the Early Twentieth-Century United States Part 4: Taming Self-Interest, Self-Interest as Limitation 9. Interest as an Enduring Political Problem in Early Modern France 10. Self-Interest, Speculation, and Gambling in Nineteenth-Century America 11. Against Self-interest: The Codification of "Disinterestedness" as an Axiological Operator, in Religion, Aesthetics, and the Ethics of Intellectual Professions