Jared Poley

The Devil's Riches (eBook, ePUB)

A Modern History of Greed

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A seeming constant in the history of capitalism, greed has nonetheless undergone considerable transformations over the last five hundred years. This multilayered account offers a fresh take on an old topic, arguing that greed was experienced as a moral phenomenon and deployed to make sense of an unjust world. Focusing specifically on the interrelated themes of religion, economics, and health-each of which sought to study and channel the power of financial desire-Jared Poley shows how evolving ideas about greed became formative elements of the modern experience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785331275
• Artikelnr.: 45093267

Autorenporträt

Jared Poley is Professor of History at Georgia State University. He is author of Decolonization in Germany: Weimar Narratives of Colonial Loss and Foreign Occupation (2005) and a co-editor of the collections Conversion and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Germany (Berghahn, 2012), Migrations in the German Lands, 1500-2000 (Berghahn, 2016), Kinship, Community, and Self (Berghahn, 2014), and Money in the German Speaking Lands (Berghahn, 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Greed and Avarice before Absolutism
Chapter 2. The Confessionalization of an Emotion
Chapter 3. Greed and the Law in the Seventeenth Century
Chapter 4. Greed, Consumerism, and the State
Chapter 5. Greed and the Oscillations between Liberalism and Socialism
Chapter 6. Greed and the New Spiritualism
Chapter 7. The Psychology and Psychoanalysis of Greed
Conclusions: Greed and History
Index